ORVILLE A. WOTRING, farmer near Bittner's Corner in Lowhill, was born Oct. 20, 1871, at Schnecksville in Upper Whitehall arid there be was brought up and educated till he became twenty years of age. Then he married and located upon the 62-acre farm of his father-in-law; and this farm he has carried on in a successful manner until the present time. He served as a school director for ten years, and as deacon of the Lowhill church. Aso as treasurer of the Sunday school there since 1899, in which he and his family have taken great interest by their personal attendance for many years.

In 1891, Mr. Wotring was married to Cora George, only child of Peter J. George, and they have two children: Pearl C. (m. Oliver Shuler) and Clayton W. The daughter graduated from the township schools in 1905, and was a teacher in the Claussville school building two terms. The son graduated in 1906, when only eleven years old; but he continued a post graduate course for five years when he secured a teacher's certificate and taught one term in the Morgenland school. He then took a preparatory course at Muhlenberg College, and also at the Lancaster Academy. In 1912 he entered the Franklin and Marshall College, and since then has taken, the regular course of collegiate education.