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M. G. Witter, M. D., a well-known physician of the county, was born in Chariton County, Mo., on the 23d of February, 1840, his parents being Marshall B. and Martha C. (Baker) Witter, who were born in Franklin County, Vt., in 1802 and 1808, and were married in their native State sixty years ago. About 1840 they moved to Cleveland, Ohio, coming soon after to Brunswick, Mo., where they resided five years, after which they became residents of Milan, Sullivan County. The father is a graduate of a law school in Vermont, and has actively practiced his profession throughout life. He surveyed the lands of Sullivan County, and helped lay out and name the town of Milan, of which he has served as mayor for years. He and wife have been members of the Methodist Church for at least sixty years, and he has always been a Republican in his political views. They now reside at Milan, Mo., aged eighty-seven and eighty-one, respectively, well preserved in years. The following are their seven children now living: Mariah; Marshall, a farmer of Washington Territory; Martha C.; M. G.; Martin R. H., who has for the past twenty-five years been connected with the Globe Democrat, of St. Louis; Melissa; and William S. M., a practicing physician of Milan. Mary is deceased. M. G. Witter, our subject, was educated in the Milan Academy, and, at the age of twenty years, left home, and went to Washington Territory, Oregon and California, and resided for some time in San Francisco. Having previously read medicine, he further prosecuted his studies, and was graduated from the Toland Medical College in 1868, locating in Middlebury, Mercer County, Mo., where he practiced one year, and came to Appleton City, where he remained until 1882. In 1887 he came to Barton County, locating in Irwin, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, a beautiful village six miles north of Lamar, where he has since practiced his profession, and is the only druggist in the place. He is a physician of the regular school, a successful practitioner, and enjoys the full confidence of those among whom he labors. From 1886 to 1888 he was coroner of Barton County. He is a Knight Templar in the Masonic order, and he and wife, whom he married in 1869, are consistent members of the Presbyterian Church. She was Mary E. Kelley, a daughter of John Kelley, and was born in Sullivan County, Mo. Their children are: Zeruah, Charles M., Cora D. and George R.