Hyman Witcover


Hyman Wallace Witcover was an architect prominent in Savannah, Georgia. He worked as a draftsman for Alfred Eichberg and eventually partnered with him.

Life and career

Witcover was born in Darlington, [South Carolina], in 1871, to Wolf and Dora.
At age 17, he moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he began work as a draftsman for noted architect Alfred Eichberg.
Witcover served on the board of the Congregation Mickve Israel and on the first board of Savannah's public library.
He served in the Georgia Hussars as a private, and was also in the Freemasonry fraternity.
Witcover married Agnes Dillon.

Death

Witcover died on October 2, 1936, in his hometown of Darlington, where he had returned to live with two of his sons. He was 65. He is interred in Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Brentwood, Maryland, alongside his wife, who predeceased him by four years.

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