BIO: Simpson Ott, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

559  SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

  SIMPSON OTT, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Carlisle, was born in 
Southampton Township, near Shippensburg, this county, in September, 
1840; son of Jacob and Susan (Barmaster) Ott, of German and English 
origin, and who reared a family of eleven children.  Our subject, the 
second born, was reared on his father's farm, receiving a common school 
education in South Middleton Township.  At the age of seventeen he 
commenced at the blacksmith's trade, serving a regular apprenticeship 
of three years.  He was married, in 1862, to Mary daughter of Israel 
Kertz and of German origin.  The children born to this union are 
William, Carrie, Florence and James.  Mr. and Mrs. Ott are members of 
the Evangelical Association, in which he has been Sabbath-school 
superintendent and is now Sabbath-school teacher.  He has been a school 
director for years.  Politically he is a Democrat.  Mr. Ott has been 
successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits since 1862, and is owner 
of a farm of forty-eight acres near Carlisle, on which he now resides.