Walter John Dittmar

1879 - 1964  (85 years)

• Name	Walter John Dittmar
  Birth	7 Feb 1879	Williamsport, Lycoming, Pennsylvania   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Oct 1964	Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I42347	Scudder
  Last Modified	26 Oct 2011

  
  

  Family	Daisy Irene Scudder,   b. Sep 1881, Driftwood, Cameron, Pennsylvania d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1903
  Children	1. Daisy Irene Dittmar,   b. 9 Jul 1905, Pennsylvania d. 1 Jul 2002, Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania (Age 96 years)   2. John S. Dittmar,   b. Abt 1910, Pennsylvania d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F14973	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Walter received no formal artistic training other than what was taught in high school, although his father was a woodcarver, which requires some level of artisan skill. In his late teens he was employed af a freelance illustrator with the Grit Publishing Company in Williamsport. From 1904-1914 or so he was the primary artist for the amazingly prolific Vandersloot Music Company. As he was color blind, these were ink drawings with only one additional hue. His covers adorned more than 100 music sheets published by the Williamsport company. Walter eventually taught art in the Williamsport school system from the 1920s to the 1940s. He further illustrated for a Williamsport-based monthly Christian magazine called the Gospel Herald, and for the Union Gospel Press of Cleveland, Ohio, from the 1910s to the 1960s,

  
  

• Sources

  [S571] U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-18, Roll: 1927079.