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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [253-254]

           ROBERT GOTTS, farmer, section 24, Lake Township, was born May
        12, 1839, in Norfolk County, England.  His parents were born in the
        same country, of German ancestry. He left his native land to become
        a resident of Ontario when he was 18 years old. He came thence, two
        years later, to Michigan, and remained three years in Wayne County,
        operating as a laborer. In 1864, he came to Huron County, where he
        entered a homestead claim of 160 acres of land. He does an exten-
        sive business in market gardening, and was State Enumerator for
        Lake Township in 1884. On coming to take possession of the property
        of which he had become the proprietor without personal examination
        of its location, etc., he found it situated remote from the limits
        of civilization, and no roads of any character in its vicinity. He
        "barked out" a road for a distance of three miles. He opened a
        clearing, built a log shanty, and lived solitary and alone for two
        years.
           In 1866, he was married, in his own cabin, to HANNAH DAVISON.
        Their nine children are all living and are named: CHARLOTTE M.,
        MORTON M., HORATIO W., HORACE S., WESLEY J., SUSAN A., ROBERT E.,
        SARAH A. and JEANNETTE L. The parents of MRS. GOTTS were natives of
        the States and Ontario, respectively. Her father died in the State
        of New York in 1878. Her mother is yet living. She was born near
        Georgian Bay, Ont., April 23, 1848, and came to Huron County about
        three months previous to her marriage.
           MR. GOTTS is one of the earliest settlers in what is now Lake
        Township. He has been active and efficient in the development of
        all local interests, and has afforded material service in the
        progress of educational matters and in other avenues pertaining to
        the wholesome growth of a com-munity. He is a prominent member of
        the Order of Good Templars, is a Prohibitionist, and one of the
        organizers of that element in Huron County. He is Chairman of the
        County Committee. In religious matters, he and his wife are active
        and zealous. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of
        which MR. GOTTS is a Steward. He was Clerk of the late Conference
        (1884). He has officiated in all the local offices of the township
        except that of Supervisor, and has held several at the same time
        when there were few settlers after the organization. He was Justice
        of the Peace eight years, and is present Clerk (1884), which
        position he has occupied eight years.

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