Genealogy Data Page 744 (Notes Pages)

Genealogy Data Page 744 (Notes Pages)

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Note: History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania" Bedford County by E. Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, ppg. 179/80
"WITT and WALKER.

Among the business men of energy and ambition in the borough of Somerset, the members of this well known firm rank high. The firm is comprised of George F. Witt and C. B. Walker. The former was born in Somerset, September 10, 1877, son of George W. Witt and wife.

The father was a foundry man the best years of his life, and still resides in Somerset. When about seventeen years of age, Mr. Witt commenced to learn the butcher's business with George Auman, of Somerset. He then attended school for a time, which better qualified him for the activities of a business career. He then worked at the trade five or six years at Somerset and a suburb of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to his native borough and became one of the firm of Davis & Witt, which was succeeded by Witt & Baker, who finally sold the market, and Mr. Witt was employed in the Seibert market, the one he had formerly owned an interest in.

Finally Mr. Witt purchased the business from Seibert and continued to operate it alone from 1904 to May 17, 1905, when he took for his business partner a farmer, C. B. Walker, whose farm home is situated about four miles from the borough of Somerset, Pennsylvania. The firm is now known as Witt & Walker. They occupy No. 6 North Cross Street, where they own a good one-story business house, which is on a leased lot. They buy and slaughter nearly all the meats they sell. They also buy and handle fish, game and poultry and put up their own ice, and in the winter months make a specialty of curing meats.

Mr. Walker, the junior member of the firm, attends largely to the buying of the stock consumed in the market. Much of this live stock is bought in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. Their market is indeed a model for neatness and well selected meats. Orders by telephone are promptly delivered about the borough, in seasonable market hours.

Mr. Witt married, July 6, 1904, Lottie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker, farmers, living in Milford township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. By the union one child has been born: Harold Edward, September 11, 1905.

Of Mr. Walker, the junior member, it may be said that he was born May 23, 1858, the son of Levy and Mary Walker, of Somerset township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. He was reared to farm labor and still owns and operates a good farm in Somerset township, Somerset county. He married, May 31, 1885, Mary Etta Spangler, daughter of Edward F. and Elizabeth Spangler, and was born July 30, 1866."