John Franklin Witter (1906-1982) was a veterinarian specialist in avian medicine as well as a researcher and professor at the University of Maine, Orono.
[1] Witter enrolled at the University of Maryland in College Park in the fall of 1924,[1] earning his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in 1928.
[1] Upon graduating in 1932 Witter was immediately offered a faculty position at the University of Maine, eventually becoming the head of the newly created Department of Animal Pathology in 1953.
[1] Dr. John Franklin Witter met Verna Church during his years at Michigan State through a professor.
[3] The new J. Franklin Witter Animal Science Center was named in his honor in 1974,[4] as well as one of the Orono-Old Town Kiwanis Club auction barns.