BIO:  William C. LOTT, Cumberland 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, Pages 402-403

WILLIAM C. LOTT, farmer, P.O. Seven Stars, was born in Mountpleasant Township, 
Adams Co., Penn., March 15, 1829, son of William H. and Ester (Wilson) Lott, 
natives of Pennsylvania, and of Scotch, Holland and English descent.  The 
father, who was a farmer by occupation, departed this life March 30, 1885, at 
the advanced age of nearly eighty-six years, having been the father of eight 
children, six of whom grew to maturity.  Wm. C., the fourth child, passed the 
early years of his life on the farm with his parents, and at the district school 
obtained a fair English education.  On reaching his maturity he began 
apprenticeship at the miller’s trade, at which he served eighteen months in two 
different mills, namely, Senft’s and Kohler’s, situated on the Little Conowago 
Creek, in Adams County, Penn.  After becoming free of his apprenticeship he came 
to Cumberland County, Penn., and continued in the milling business there about 
four years; from there moved West, and engaged in the same line for a short time 
in Iowa and Indiana.  He then returned East, and followed milling in Adams 
County, Penn., spending in all some seventeen years of his life in that 
business, and since then has devoted his time to farming.  He owns the farm on 
which he now resides.  February 25, 1858, Mr. Lott was married to Deborah Wolf, 
daughter of Jacob Wolf, of Cumberland County, Penn., of German descent.  To them 
have been born three children:  Ella May, William Jacob and Charles Winfield 
(the latter died when nearly one year old).  William Jacob is a resident of 
Kansas.  The family is identified with the United Presbyterian Church of 
Gettysburg, of which Mr. Lott is a trustee.  In politics he is a Democrat; he 
has served as township clerk.