GEORGE E. WITTICH, retired merchant, was born in Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio, where he followed mercantile business as a clerk. In the spring of 1870, he came to Garnett, and at once established a grocery business in company with M. A. Crouse, under the style of Crouse & Wittich, in the same year, Isaac Knouff was taken in and the firm name changed to Knouff, Wittich & Co., which was dissolved in the spring of 1871, at which time George E. Wittich bought Henry Moler's stock of general merchandise, taking in M. A. Crouse, under style of Wittich & Crouse. This firm built up a large and lucrative business which they disposed of in August, 1882, to Pollard & Pierce. Mr. Wittich has considerable real estate in Kansas City, and gives the greater portion of his time to the management of the same in connection with his mining interests in Colorado, where he is interested in several different mines. He is also a stockholder in the Clay County Cattle Company, Texas, which concern has 15,000 acres of land, and over 6,000 head of cattle. He served one term in the City Council. I found this biography while researching a family line who moved to Anderson County, KS. This is the complete biography, but the book contains much historical data that may be of interest. The book in which these biographies can be found is: William G. Cutler's "History of the State of Kansas" first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.This is a HUGE book and spans two volumes that are 600+ page each. The information in the book is arranged alphabetically by county. The book has been transcribed and can be found at this website: http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cutler/