Claude S. Kitterman is a leading menber of the banking fraternity at
Cambridge City, where he has been successfully engaged in that occupation
for the past six years, and both as a bussiness man and citizen he is held
in high esteem by his associates. Mr. Kitterman was born April 20, 1870,
in the historic town of Lawrence, Kan., son of Ennias and Marinda C.
(Harvey) Kitterman, on the father's side being of German Decent and on the
mother's english, her ancestors having come over with William Penn. The
father is a farmer by occupation, and has followed agricultural pursuits
during the major part of his active career. Claude S. Kitterman received
his education in the common and high school of Centerville, Ind., his
parents having returned to Indiana some time after his birth. He
graduated in the high school in 1890, and then continued to work on his
father's farm in the summer months, teaching school during the winter
until 1904, when he helped to organize the First National Bank at Green's
Fork. In 1905 he removed to Cambridge City and accepted the position of
assistant cashier with the First National Bank of that place. In July,
1907, he was promoted to the position of cashier, and in August following
was elected president of the institution, which position he has since
continued to fill to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned.
Fraternally, he is a member of the Sons of Veterans, having joined William
P. Benton Camp at Richmond in 1888, and is also a member of Cambridge
Lodge, No. 9, Knights of Pythias, having filled the chairs in both local
organizations. In Politics he gives a consistent support to the men and
measures of the Republical party. Mr. Kitterman was married in 1905, to
Miss Lenna M. Bowermaster, daughter of Jacob M. and Emma R. (Boughner)
Bowermaster, of Jackson township, Wayne county, and this union has been
blessed by the birth of two sons-- Max B. and Ennias M. Kitterman.
