The Life of XAVIER WITTMER
Francis Xavier Wittmer: Born Dettighofen, Baden, Germany. The son of Franz Xavier Wittmer (1795-1886) and Magdalena Fricken. Arrived in NYC aboard the ship Edward Stanley in May 1857 with sister Kunigunda and his father Franz Xavier Wittmer. Owner of Wittmer ice company & Wittmer Brick company. He became Preident of American Natural Gas Company which he and his nephew Henry and several other men invested in after a very successful natural gas discovery on some land they had leased about 1887. Naturalized citizen 1906. Traveled back to his hometown in Germany 1906. Passed into eternity in 1921.ll