Claud F. Witty (1877–1952)

Gospel preacher listed on Ligon's Portraiture of Gospel Preachers, 1899. He spoke on the Freed-Hardeman College Lectureship in the 1940s.

He attended Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Mo., and A. M. Morris School, Hale, Mo. He commenced preaching the gospel in 1897 in his home state of Illinois and then traveled to the west coast preaching and establishing congregations in all the western states. He married Miss Minnie Bunn on April 18, 1900, and came to Detroit August 1, 1912. He worked with the Plum Street church of Christ for two and one-half years and then established the West Side Central Church with which he diligently labored for thirty-two years. He then worked for the Redford church of Christ until his retirement in 1951. The growth and establishment of fifty-two churches of Christ in the Detroit area can partly be attributed to his labors. Brother Wittys tireless efforts to bring about religious unity (without compromise of truth) between the conservative element of the Christian Church and the churches of Christ, even in the last days of his life, is but one of the many examples that could be given of his ceaseless devotion to the cause of Christ.