Edwin Schitz was born March 25, 1833. He farmed on the homestead nineteen years; then bought a 91-acre farm near Lynnport, Pa., which he cultivated until his retirement. This tract was the Ferdinand Follweiler farm. A tavern was conducted at this place many years. He is a Democrat. He was a school director and assistant assessor of Lynn Township, where he has always lived. He and his family were for a time Reformed members of Ebenezer church at New Tripoli, which he served as deacon, elder and trustee, but later united with the church at Jacksonville. Pa.

In 1858 he married Kate, daughter of Jacob Kerschner. She is buried at New Tripoli. They had ten children.