Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Gotts, Mrs Mary E 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

MRS. MARY E. GOTTS. One of the well- known business concerns of Joliet is the 
American Ice Company, of which Mrs. Gotts is the proprietor, and which carries 
on a large trade in ice, coal and wood. The office and yards of the company 
are at Chicago and Columbia streets, and the ice houses, which have a large 
capacity, are also at the same location. Three wagons are used constantly in 
the delivery of orders. The business is under the personal superintendence of 
Mrs. Gotts and its success is due almost wholly to her executive ability and 
perseverance, although she has had an able assistant in her brother, Edward F. 
Reiter, who is manager of the ice business. In addition to the oversight of 
this work, she is also proprietor of a large dressmaking establishment that 
furnishes employment to eight seamstresses and turns out tailor made garments 
of the finest and latest styles. Mrs. Gotts was born in Homer Township, this 
county, and was third among the eleven children of Peter and Helen (Biever) 
Reiter, who settled on a farm at Peck's Corner, Homer Township, about 1863. 
When a mere child she became interested in dressmaking, for which she seems to 
have inherited a natural talent, her ancestors on both sides of the house 
having been tailors and dressmakers. In 1888 she came to Joliet in order to 
engage more extensively in the dressmaking business, and she has since 
continued this work successfully, in addition to personally superintending the 
ice business. She and her son, Alva, reside at No. 403 Collins street.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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