Marriage
He married Caroline Bayard Stevens (November 21, 1859 – December 5, 1932), the eldest daughter of Edwin Augustus Stevens on January 6, 1915. She was 11 years older than Wittpenn. Caroline had previously been married to Archibald Alexander, but her husband had been missing since the divorce. She divorced and waited 20 years to remarry, reportedly to ensure that her first husband was no longer living when she remarried.
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