BIO:  William H. Bott, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, West Manchester Township, Pg 199

WILLIAM H. BOTT is the son of Peter and Elizabeth (Smyser) Bott, natives of West Manchester 
Township, and was born January 23, 1841.  He was married, December 9, 1871, to Miss Lucy, 
daughter of Michael Hoke, of old Manchester Township, and has had born to him four children:  
Flora K., Harvey H. (deceased), Minnie M., Lucy E. and William E.  Mr. Bott is an 
agriculturist, and the owner of three farms, to-wit:  his homestead of 223 acres, improved with 
fine buildings and extra large bank barn; another of 126 acres, well improved and cultivated, 
and a third in North Codorus Township, also well improved with first class building and very 
productive.  Mr. Bott was drafted in the first draft of the late war, but paid $350 for a 
substitute; he afterward enlisted in Company B, Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and 
served to the end of the war.  Mr. Bott is a member of the Lutheran Church, and his family of 
the German Reformed.