Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Ott, Jeremiah
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Haycock Township


  JEREMIAH OTT farmer, P.O. Keller's Church, was born in 
Bedminster township in 1829.  John Ott, the grandfather of 
Jeremiah, was a son of Michael Ott, also of Bedminster 
township, was born in 1770, was reared in Bedminster 
township, after which he learned the trade of a weaver.  In 
the year 1792 he was married to Dorothy, daughter of John 
Keller, who owned the place whereon the Ott family now 
resides.  Mr. Keller died about the year 1798.  In the year 
1800 John Ott bought this place from his brother-in-law, 
Henry Keller, to whom it was appraised, subject to a 
petition, filed and approved before the court of this 
county, then held at Newtown, by the heirs of the aforesaid 
John Keller's estate, it being at that time a tract of about 
one hundred and forty acres, situated in Haycock township.  
John Ott lives on this farm, and manages it himself, besides 
working at his trade.  He has had three sons and five 
daughters:  Magdalena, Alexander, Elizabeth, Sarah, Jacob, 
Hannah, John and Mary Ann, seven of whom are dead.  The 
youngest was married to a Mr. Dietrich (now deceased), of 
Philadelphia, and she is still living there.  His wife died 
in 1811.  He was married a second time to Elizabeth 
Marsteller.  No children were born to his second marriage.  
Jacob, the fifth of the family, was born in 1800, worked 
with his father on the farm, in his boyhood, after which he 
learned the trade of a tailor.  In 1829, he was married to 
Mary, daughter of George Ratzel, of Bedminster township.  
One son (Jeremiah) was born to this union.  Jacob Ott 
followed his occupation, living the first two years after 
his marriage in Bedminster township, then purchasing a lot 
of sixteen acres in Haycock township, whereon he moved and 
lived up to the time of his father's death, in 1851, 
intestate; the farm was thereupon sold, Jacob buying it in 
1852.  He sold his lot of sixteen acres, and moved on the 
farm.  He gave up tailoring, and engaged in farming, he with 
his son farming the place.  Jeremiah Ott was married, in 
1858, to Lucy Ann, daughter of David Kramer, of Bedminster 
township.  To them were born two sons and three daughters, 
all living:  Lydia Louisa, married to Mr. T. M. Frantz, 
living at Sellersville, this county; Oliver K., Ellamanda, 
Mary Emma, and John Henry, living at home with their father. 
 The mother of this family died in 1872, the farm being 
bequeathed to Jeremiah at the death of his father, which 
took place in 1875. His mother is still living on the old 
homestead with her son.  Jeremiah Ott received a 
common-school education, served one term as school director, 
together with other offices of trust, and has been a farmer 
all his life.  He is a member of the German Reformed church, 
and a respected citizen.  The Ott homestead has been in the 
family for upward of eighty-seven years.