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MARTIN OTT

 

 

MARTIN OTT, a farmer of Castoria Township, was born in Germany in 1837. He left his native home in 1853 for New York, where he remained a few days and then went to Detroit. Five years later he came across the Isthmus of Panama to San Francisco, where he remained one year, working around at odd jobs. He then went to the mines at Columbia and Sonora, Tuolumne County, and mined for nine years. At the end of that time he purchased the farm on which he now resides; it contains 200 acres, and is principally devoted to the raising of grain and chicory, situated about eight miles from Stockton on the east side of the Upper San Joaquin river. He owns, with Charles Dangers, a factory where they manufacture the chicory into an article of merchandise; the factory is located two miles further up same river, on land of Dangers’ brothers.

      Mr. Ott was married in New York city to Miss Marie A. Willie, who was born in Germany in 1858. They have five children, viz: Ottilie, Minnie, Freddie, Emma and Agnes.

 

 

 

Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California, Pages 413-414.  Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.


© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

 

 

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