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William C. Witter

Lawyer

Centurion, 1892–1914

Full Name William Clitus Witter

Born 13 November 1842 in Willimantic, Connecticut

Died 27 March 1914 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Salisbury Cemetery, Salisbury, Connecticut

Proposed by Clarence A. Seward and James M. Varnum

Elected 4 June 1892 at age forty-nine

Century Memorial

William Clitus Witter, veteran of the Civil War, a prominent patent lawyer, and active as Vice-President of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital

Henry Osborn Taylor
1915 Century Association Yearbook