Prominent and reliable citizen of Portland township. He is closely associated with the progress and best interests of the community of which he is a member. He has held most of the local offices of trust, such as township trustee, treasurer, assessor and school director. He has been a resident of the county since March, 1870, when he settled on eighty acres which he had purchased fifteen years previous. He has added to his possessions until he now owns a tract of 280 acres under good degree of cultivation, where he is operating to a considerable extent as a stock farmer. He was born in Ohio, Aug. 26, 1843, and is a son of Frederick and Margaret Bitterman. At the age of seventeen years he went to Illinois and engaged in farming, and also bought and shipped hay. In 1866 he was married at Lockport, Will county, to Sarah, daughter of George and Catharine Heinselman. They have six children. Mr. Bitterman is a republican and is connected with the Evangelical Association. In 1891 he was elected representative from Cerro Gordo county and was reelected two years later serving in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth general assemblies.

Prominent and reliable citizen of Portland township. He is closely associated with the progress and best interests of the community of which he is a member. He has held most of the local offices of trust, such as township trustee, treasurer, assessor and school director. He has been a resident of the county since March, 1870, when he settled on eighty acres which he had purchased fifteen years previous. He has added to his possessions until he now owns a tract of 280 acres under good degree of cultivation, where he is operating to a considerable extent as a stock farmer. He was born in Ohio, Aug. 26, 1843, and is a son of Frederick and Margaret Bitterman. At the age of seventeen years he went to Illinois and engaged in farming, and also bought and shipped hay. In 1866 he was married at Lockport, Will county, to Sarah, daughter of George and Catharine Heinselman. They have six children. Mr. Bitterman is a republican and is connected with the Evangelical Association. In 1891 he was elected representative from Cerro Gordo county and was reelected two years later serving in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth general assemblies.