BIO:  Cornelius LOTT, Straban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 510

CORNELIUS LOTT, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Plainview, was born in 
Mountpleasant Township, this county, in 1821, to Henry (a farmer) and Magdalena 
(Houghtelin) Lott, natives of Adams County and of Holland-Dutch descent.  In a 
family of eleven children, Cornelius is the eldest.  He spent his earlier years 
with his parents on the farm; received his education in the school of his 
neighborhood; and since youth has followed agricultural pursuits.  He is the 
owner of 150 acres of land, where he now resides.  In 1849 he married Elizabeth 
Beggs, who died in 1853, in Lauderdale County, Tenn., where he resided at the 
time.  He then married, in 1857, Mary J., daughter of John McIlhenny, and of 
Scotch-Irish origin.  She has borne her husband four children, three of whom 
John K., David G. and M. Lizzie are living.  Mr. Lott is a member of the United 
Presbyterian Church, in which he has been elder for eight years, and Mrs. Lott 
is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  He is a Republican in politics; and 
takes an active interest in school matters and the education of his children, 
two of whom are teachers.  He was jury commissioner from 1867 to 1870.