BIO: Peter STOTT, 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 933 & 934.
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  PETER STOTT, who has been a resident of Munson Station, Clearfield County, 
Pa., since 1888, where he fills the important position of foreman of the Kyler 
mine for the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Company, was born February 16, 1866, at 
St. Helens, Lancashire, England, and is a son of Henry and Jane Stott.
  Henry Stott was born in England in 1844 and still resides at St. Helens where 
he is well known and much respected.  His wife was also born in England and died 
there in 1876, at the age of thirty-four years.  Three sons and one daughter 
were born to them, namely:  James, who is a glass blower by trade, lives at St. 
Helens; Henry, who is in the same business as his older brother, also lives at 
St. Helens; Alice, who is the wife of Thomas Stott, also lives at St. Helens; 
and Peter, the only one of the family in the United States.  The father is a 
coal miner.
  Peter Stott was permitted to attend school at St. Helens until he was twelve 
years of age, when he entered the mines and continued to work as a coal miner in 
his native land until he was twenty-one years old.  In his twenty-second year he 
set sail for America and landed in the port of New York in November, 1888, from 
which place he came immediately to Munson Station, Clearfield County.  He has 
devoted seventeen of the years he has resided here to working in the Kyler mine 
for R. C. Fishburn and the rest of the time has worked in nearby mines, always 
being able to secure remunerative employment, being an industrious and peaceable 
man.  For ten years he was assistant foreman of the Kyler mine and since 
December, 1906, has been foreman.
  In December, 1890, Mr. Stott was married at Houtzdale, Pa., to Miss Edith 
Woodiwiss, a daughter of Charles and Emma Woodiwiss, of Yorkshire, England, and 
they have an interesting family of three daughters and one son:  Jessie, Harry, 
Jennie Lillian and Frances.  In politics Mr. Stott is a Republican and in 1909 
he was elected a school director in Morris Township and has twice served as 
judge of elections.  He is a member of Thesbian Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 
293, Munson Station, and has passed all the chairs; and belongs also to 
Moshannon Lodge No. 391, F. & A. M., Philipsburg and class of 1911 Williamsport 
Consistory and is a Thirty-second degree Mason.  He stands high both as a 
citizen and as a man.  With his wife he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal 
church.