Charles Francis Lott
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Charles Francis Lott (1781 – July 8. 1866)[1][2][3] was a New Jersey physician and a surgeon who served in the War of 1812, in which he raised a company of light horse cavalry and became a medical director and assistant adjutant general.
Life and career[edit]
Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Lott was the only child of Peter and Mary (Heyer) Lott.[4] His father served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and Lott "remembered the battle of Princeton as well as that of Trenton" from his childhood.[5] He studied medicine with Dr. Moses Scott,[1][2] and graduated in Philadelphia in 1805 and settled in New Mills, New Jersey (later Pemberton) in 1806 or 1807. Overall, he practiced medicine there for thirty years.[1][2]
When the War of 1812 began, Lott raised a company of "light horse" and "while he would not accept the captaincy, he served as lieutenant of the company of patriots".[6] During the war, he was an assistant surgeon, with the rank of captain in the regiment of Major Samuel Joseph Read.[1][2] Over the course of his service, he became medical director and assistant adjutant general,[7] and "occupied a military station near the mouth of the Delaware river, at Red Bank, where he also held the position of divisional medical director".[8]
Returning to New Jersey, "his practice was quite extensive",[1] and included the furnaces in Speedwell, Hanover and Batsto, and to the County almshouse.[2] During this time, Lott "also he became a director in the Farmers' and Mechanics' bank, located at Mount Holly".[8] He was listed as a county commissioner of Burlington County, New Jersey, in 1818,[9] and again in 1822.[10] In 1819, Lott was a charter member of St. John's Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar.[4] Lott retired from the practice of medicine in New Jersey in 1835,[2] and lived in Trenton until the spring of 1836, when Lott and his family moved to Quincy, Illinois.[7] In 1837 he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he practiced medicine and "engaged in the whole sale drug business for several years".[4] He returned to the East,[1][2] residing for a time in Philadelphia before moving to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and finally moving in 1849 to Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where he remained until his death.[1][4]
Personal life and death[edit]
On November 5, 1809, Lott married Edith N. Lamb, a daughter of Colonel Jacob Lamb, with whom Lott had six sons and two daughters.[1][3] One of his sons, Charles Fayette Lott, born July 1, 1824, became a state legislator and judge in Butte County, California.[7] When Charles Fayette sought to travel to California, Lott opposed it and cut off funds to the son, who then mortgaged property to be able to make the journey.[6] Lott's youngest son, Bushrod W. Lott, born May 1, 1826, went on to become a political figure in Minnesota, and the first mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota.[6]
Edith died in October 1827.[3] In July 1848, while living in Philadelphia, Lott married a second time to Eliza Bewley, widow of Nathan Bewley.[3] From this marriage, a daughter, Annie, was born. Lott died of paralysis at the age of in the 85, and was buried in the Moravian Cemetery at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[1][3] Eliza Lott, having then been twice widowed, survived Lott by 32 years, dying in Quakertown in 1898, at the age of 89.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Evan Morrison Woodward, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey: With Biographical Sketches (1883), p. 82-83.
- ^ a b c d e f g Burlington County Medical Society (N.J.), Semi-centennial Anniversary of the District Medical Society (1879), p. 16.
- ^ a b c d e Alexander Van Cleve Phillips (1942). The Lott Family in America. Edwards Brothers, Inc. p. 86.
- ^ a b c d A.V. Phillips The Lott Family in America (1942), p. 60, 86-89.
- ^ James Miller Guinn, History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sierras(1906), p. 397.
- ^ a b c George C. Mansfield, History of Butte County, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County (1918), p. 411.
- ^ a b c Harry Laurenz Wells, History of Butte County, California, Volumes 1-2 (1882), p. 192.
- ^ a b Hubert Howe Bancroft, Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth (1892), p. 351.
- ^ Journal of the Legislative-Council of the State of New-Jersey, October Session 1817-1818 (1818), p. 393.
- ^ Journal of the Proceedings of the Legislative-Council of the State of New-Jersey (1822), p. A-13.
- ^ Friends' Weekly Intelligencer, Vol. 55 (1898), p. 45.