[1] His father was a fireman, and later owned and operated a grocery store at 320 Communipaw Avenue.

Wittpenn became interested in politics when he gave a speech for James J. Murphy at a convention in Jersey City.

President Woodrow Wilson named Wittpenn as the civilian overseer, of the Port of New York.

In March 1929 Wittpenn was appointed as a State Highway Commissioner by Governor Lawson.

She was 11 years older than Wittpenn and the mother of Archibald Stevens Alexander, who had died in 1912.

Caroline had previously been married to Archibald Alexander, but her husband had been missing since the divorce.