HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1209-10.   [Campbell County]

FERDINAND GEORGE OTT--One of Dayton's substantial citizens and prosperous
business men is Ferdinand George Ott, who is engaged in the drug business.
He was born on a farm near Lanesville, Indiana, July 12, 1857, but is of
foreign extraction.  His parents were Bernhard and Pauline (Neuman) Ott,
the former a native of Wurtemberg and the latter of Prussia, Germany, who
came to the United States when young and located in Newport, Kentucky. It
was in that city that they were married, and not long after their union
they located upon a farm near Lanesville, Indiana, and for a number of
years engaged in its cultivation.  In 1862 they returned to Newport, where
they passed the remainder of their lives, the demise of the father
occurring when he was seventy-three years of age and that of the mother
when she was sixty-four.  This estimable couple were the parents of ten
children, five of whom grew to maturity.  At the time of the Civil war the
father was a member of the old home guards.
     Ferdinand George Ott, who was the eldest of his father's large family,
was five years of age when his parents located in Dayton.  He attended the
public schools for a time and owing to straitened circumstances very early
in life found it necessary to face the problem of earning a living.  His
first position was as a bell boy in the old Gibson Hotel in Cincinnati.
His future work was no doubt determined by the fact that when he was
fourteen years old he found a position of humble character with a drug
store in Cincinnati and followed this with several similar positions. He
found the work so congenial and proved so apt in picking up the details
that the question of a vocation in life was settled without much
difficulty.  He entered the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy and was
graduated from this institution in 1882.  He was thrifty and an excellent
manager and after clerking for about one year he found himself in a
position to go into business for himself, and so bought a drug store in
Dayton.  Three years later he sold out and for the thirteen years following
worked in stores in Covington, Cincinnati and Newport.  In 1905 he bought
his present drug business in Dayton and has ever since carried it on with
the utmost success.
     Mr. Ott is a socialist in politics, has always taken an active
interest in the cause and believes in it triumphant future.  He was one
of the original members in an organization known as the Dayton's Men's
Club, a civic organization which has done a great deal for the improvement
and advancement of the city and which has an active membership of about
one hundred at the present time.  He is an enthusiastic Mason, a member
of the blue lodge and senior deacon of the Henry Barnes Lodge, No. 607.
     The marriage of Mr. Ott to Miss Florence L. Davidson, a native of
Springfield, Ohio, was celebrated February 10, 1891.  She was reared and
educated in Springfield, where he father, Otho Davidson, engaged in the
cooper's trade and lived until his demise.  Her mother, Laura Savilda
(Black) Davidson, was a lineal descendant of John Quincy Adams.  Her death
occurred in Cincinnati.  Mr. and Mrs. Ott have one child, a daughter,
named Laura Elizabeth, twelve years of age.

Ott Neuman Davidson Black Adams
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Covington-Kenton-KY Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH Springfield-Clark-OH
IN Germany

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