BIO: Hon. Fred LOTT, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 793 & 794.
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  HON. FRED LOTT, general merchant and formerly burgess of Troutville, is one of 
the representative men of this borough, in which he has maintained his home 
since 1894.  He was born July 15, 1841, on his father's farm in Henderson 
Township, Jefferson County, Pa., and is a son of George H. and Catherine (Knarr) 
Lott.
  George H. Lott was born in Germany and there married Catherine Knarr and after 
the birth of their first child they emigrated to America.  In order to reach 
Henderson Township, Jefferson County, they were able to travel by railroad as 
far as Tyrone, Pa., from the place they landed, but the rest of the trip was 
through a rough country and this they made with horse and wagon.  The first wife 
of George H. Lott died in Jefferson County, leaving four children:  Henry, Adam, 
Fred and Catherine, Fred being the only one to survive.  Mr. Lott was later 
married to Catherine Miller, who died without children.  George H. Lott 
continued to live in Jefferson County and there his death occurred at the age of 
sixty-one years.
  Fred Lott grew to manhood on his father's farm and followed farming and 
lumbering for many years, later purchasing the farm which contained eighty-eight 
acres.  Having bought other farm land he sold the old homestead in 1908.  In 
1894 he moved to Troutville and embarked in a general mercantile business and 
has continued in the same line, having his son, Joseph H. Lott, as his 
assistant.  He still owns also a small farm in Brady Township and a timber tract 
of fifty-five acres located in Bell Township, and in addition to this, a half 
interest in a lumber tract in Henderson Township and improved real estate at 
Troutville.  He is a stockholder in the DuBois National Bank at DuBois, Pa. and 
was one of the organizers of the Citizens National Bank at Big Run, Pa. and was 
one of the organizers of the Citizens National Bank at Big Run, Pa., of which he 
is still a director.  In politics he is a Democrat.  He has been a very active 
and useful citizen of Troutville and has served in the borough council and as 
burgess.
  In 1862 Mr. Lott was married to Miss Catherine Walker, of Jefferson County, 
Pa., and ten children were born to them, as follows:  Lewis, who married 
Catherine S. Mervine, and they live in Jefferson County and have two children - 
Mildred and Burnett; William, who is a resident of DuBois, married Millie 
Stiles; Jesse E., who lives at Troutville, married Josephine Webber; Pauline, 
who lives at home; Susan C., who is the wife of Dr. F. C. Williard, of Warren 
County, Pa.; Joseph H., who is with his father in business, married Jennie 
Schoch, and they have three children - Helen, Brooks Frederick and Louisa; and 
four who died young.  Mr. and Mrs. Lott are members of the Reformed church.  
Since 1875 Mr. Lott has been a member of the Odd Fellows, and belongs to the 
Rebeccas and also to the Knights of Pythias.