BIO:  David Witmer, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Spring Garden Township, Pg 194

DAVID WITMER, pastor of the Witmer Church, of Spring Garden Township, is a native of Spring 
Garden, and was born December 16, 1811.  He is the son of David and Magdalena Witmer, natives 
of Lancaster County, Penn.  His father was for many years a minister of the Mennonite 
denomination.  The Witmer Church, built in 1816, of which our subject is the present pastor, 
was named after him.  Our subject followed farming on the old homestead until fifty years of 
age, when he entered the ministry.  Mr. Witmer was married, January 29, 1837, to Miss Anna, 
daughter of John and Esther Koffman, of Lancaster County, Penn.  This union has been blessed 
with two children:  Magdalena and Susan.  Mr. Witmer is an earnest and zealous pastor.