Brief Life History of John Joseph
When John Joseph Witter was born on 26 July 1896, in Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States, his father, John Wittitzer, was 40 and his mother, Anna Wittitzer, was 40. He married Florence Marie Krebs on 23 June 1925, in New Washington, Cranberry Township, Crawford, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Richland Township, Defiance, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died on 18 May 1967, in Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio, United States, at the age of 70.
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- Joseph J Witter, "United States 1950 Census"
- John Joseph Witter, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Joe J. Witter, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
German: from an ancient Germanic personal name, composed of the elements wid(u) ‘wood, forest’ + hari ‘army’.
North German: occupational name for a whitewasher or plasterer, from Middle Low German witten ‘to make white’, or for a coiner, from witten ‘to determine the contents of gold or silver by boiling’.
English (Lancashire and Cheshire): variant of Whitter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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