Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania (2 volumes),
Beers, 1900

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WILLIAM H. TITMAN was born December 28, 1865, at Egypt Mills, and was reared
in Lehman township, where he received his education. At the age of twenty-one
he commenced work on his own account, hiring out to various farmers until his
marriage, since which time he has lived on the fine farm in Lehman which is
now his home. This place, which is a valuable tract of river-bottom land,
is one of the best farms in Pike county, and although Mr. Titman does not
own the propertv he takes as much pride in its appearance and improvement as
if it belonged to him, and evervthing about the land and buildings bespeaks
watchful care and good management on his part. He is thoroughly modern in all
his agricultural work, thrifty and progressive to an extraordinary degree,
and he attends to the cultivation of his fertile acres in an intelligent
and systematic manner which would do credit to many an older and more
experienced man.

In December, 1893, Mr. Titman was united in marriage, at Deckertown, N. J.,
with Miss Flora Canfield, by whom he has had three children: Emmet S.,
Irvin L., and Earl. Mrs. Titman has proved a competent helpmeet to her
industrious husband, working steadily with him and assisting him materially
in his success, and thev are both highly esteemed by their neighbors and
friends in Lehman township as pleasant, intelligent people, who would be
desirable residents of any community.  Mr. Titman's widowed mother makes
her home with them. Our subject is a Republican in his po litical preferences.

Mrs. Titman's father, Charles Canfield, was born in Huguenot, N. Y. For
his first wife he married Julia A. Dewitt, a native of the same place,
and a daughter of John C. and Sallie A. (Trible) Dewitt. In 1874 Mr. and
Mrs. Canfield removed to Monroe county, Penn., where she passed away in May,
1875, at the early age of thirty years, and he subsequently removed to McAvee
Valley, N. J., where he still resides. Mr. Canfield is now forty eight years
of age. He is a blacksmith by trade.  For his second wife he married Miss
Minerva Kishpaw, and to them have been born nine children: Sadie, Eugene,
Arthur (deceased), Maggie, Lydia, Leanora, William (deceased), Itha M. and
Orval.  Mrs. Titman, who was born August 9, 1873, at Port Jervis, N. Y.,
was the only child of the first marriage, and after her mother's death she
went to live with her grandfather Dewitt, by whom she was reared.

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