Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon." Portland,
OR: Print & Lithographing House of A.  G.  Walling, 1882.  p. a39.

BENNETT B.  WITT

	was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, April 5, 1853.  With his parents he came
to the Pacific Coast in 1858, and with them moved to the various sections of
country as narrated in the biography of Philander S.  Witt.  In 1866, for the
first time, he came to Walla Walla valley, where his parents settled upon a farm
in the neighborhood of where the subject of this sketch now resides, In 1875,
September 21, he was married to Miss Mary F.  Scott, daughter of John Scott, one
of the substantial farmers of Walla Walla.  They have three children: M.
Wallace, born December 16, 1876; Stephen D., July 20, 1879; and Jessie V., June
13, 1881. The farm on which they reside contains 160 acres of land, and was
taken up by his brother as a homestead.  It is all under cultivation, except
possibly ten acres, and is all fenced.  The improvements are all new, and can be
seen by reference to sketch of the same, in this work.  There are ten acres of
timber land in the mountains, that are a part of the property.  As to
productiveness, it does not differ materially from any of the other numerous
farms in the foothills.  Its elevations are better than the low land, because of
ferns that choke out the grain in the latter.  The view of the place is towards
the north, looking out over a grain-growing section of some twelve miles in
extent.  The face of the country is uneven and hilly, and the farm in question
is situated six miles east from Walla Walla.

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Submitted to the WA.  Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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