A farmer and fruit-grower, resided on Section 21, Boyer Township, Crawford County, Iowa, and came to the county in 1878. He was born in Massachusetts in 1829, and was the son of John S. and Lydia Bartlett Waitley, natives of Scotland. C. H. Waitley was reared in Ashtabula County, Ohio, received his education in the district schools, then attended the Canton schools and then Hiram College, and was a pupil there with the lamented President Garfield. Mr. Waitley was married in Knox County, Ohio, in 1855, to Rosalia Mackenzie, a native of Knox County and the daughter of Moses and Hester (Sapp) Mackenzie. They moved to Noble, Indiana in 1859 and engaged in milling. Then he went to La Grange, Indiana, following the same occupation for some years. In 1878, he came to Harrison County, Iowa. He bought a farm of 80 acres of raw prairie in Crawford County in 1884. Mr. Waitley made a great success of fruit growing and put out a good orchard of 1 ½ acres, also 2 acres in blackberries, 1 acre in strawberries, 1 1/2 acres in raspberries. He had a vineyard of 400 bearing vines. For 16 years in Boyer Township, Crawford County, Mr. Waitley served as Justice of the Peace. Mr. And Mrs. Waitley had 5 children: Flora, Edwin B., Charlie, Eva (the wife of Dr. Spaulding of Battle Creek, Iowa, and a successful teacher in Harrison and Monona Counties), and Ida. Mr. Waitley was connected with the Dunlap Reporter as soliciting agent for two years. He was editor of the paper for 2 ½ years.