CHESTER M. WHITMAN - Biography

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This biography appears on page 681 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

CHESTER M. WHITMAN, editor and Postmaster, Waterford; born in Rochester
Dec. 10, 1852; son of L. O. and C. M. Whitman, who came to Racine Co. in
1839. Five children, one son and four daughters. Chester M. was educated
in the district school west of Rochester; in 1874, started a paper, the
Waterford Post, and has conducted it successfully since; it has about
nine hundred circulation, increasing; he was appointed Postmaster Feb.
3, 1879. Married Miss Belle H. Griffin Aug. 25, 1875, the daughter of
Adam and E. M., of Clinton, Rock Co., Wis. He is a member of the Temple
of Honor, liberal in his religious views, and a Republican.