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public schools in Muscatine and served that city and county for forty-eight 
years as principal, superintendent of the city schools, and later as county 
superintendent. A man who can serve in this capacity with such a varied con- 
stituency has unusual qualities as an executive. The esteem in which Prof. 
Witter was held by his old associates was the unanimous action of the Academy 
at Cedar Falls in 1908, to elect him an honorary life member. Prof. Witter 
died at Biloxi, Mississippi, October 29, 1909. 
