Born: August 18, 1830, Lums Corners, Town of Yates, Orleans County, New York.
Died: September 25, 1918, Brooklyn, New York.
Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Iowa.
William was the son of Charles and Polly G. Pitts. He married twice: to Martha Amelia Pierce Grannis (1887), and Ann Eliza Pitts.
As a young man, he taught school in rural Rock County, Wisconsin.
He later became a doctor, and practiced in Fredericksburg, Iowa, for over 40 years.
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