1211 Bixby Avenue

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Witting have moved into one of their houses at 1211 Bixby Avenue. (May 22, 1912)

Adolph Edward Witting (1861-1941); Alice Porter Witting (1865-1960)

A.E. Witting —  $5.00 reward for the return of “Billy”, my Llewelyn setter dog. (1912-1913)

The current house was built in 1916. Mr. Witting was engaged in the lumber and cedar business.

A. E. Witting (1920-1921) (1921-22)

David Park (1927-1928) (1934-35) (1937-38). David J. Park, Creamery was owner/operator of Creamery in Bemidji. Mayor of Bemidji in 1931.

Chas Sattgast (1939-40) (1942)

Charles Richard Sattgast, President of Bemidji State Teachers College (1942 – Who’s Who in Minnesota). Born Mt. Vernon, Illinois on Jan 26, 1899. Married Bertha G. Summers Aug 8, 1923 in Hugoton, Kansas. Became President of BSTC in 1938.

George E. Forsell (1946) George and his brother Paul Forsell were owners of Bemidji Paper Sales at the end of World War II.

Leon Harris (1951)

Eugene Scribner (1956) (1958)( (1964).

Eugene Scribner was a teacher at Bemidji High School for 17 years. He resigned in the spring of 1968. Mr. Eugene Scribner resigned after seventeen years with Bemidji Public School System to become assistant director in the Elk River Science Curriculum project. Dr. Wm. Britton, BSC Professor of chemistry, in his capacity as a consultant is able to provide not only knowledge of chemistry, but many fresh new ideas as to how material can be presented to students in the most interesting and easily grasped manner. They left immediately after the completion of their duties as staff members of the summer institute in Nuclear Science and Radioisotope Techniques at B.S.C., to start writing in Elk River. They are writing new materials to be used in an experimental program: the Elk River Science Curriculum Project. This project is funded by the federal government through the auspices of the Central Minnesota Educational Research and Development Council of St. Cloud Mn. (Aug 16, 1968)

Eugene Scribner was a district deputy of the Knights of Columbus.

Marriage license application by Leo Edward Hughes, 28. 1207 Bixby Ave., and Vickie Lynn Wiseth, 922 Dewey Ave., May 16, 1971.

James Cecil (1970) (1974) (1977) (1978) (1982) (1989); Prof. James Cecil, Bemidji State College, political science department.

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