From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 227.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


ADOLPH BOTT

Adolph Bott, an enterprising retail grocer of Wheeling, was born at 
Borbels, by Geisa, Sachsen Weimar Eisenach, Germany, February 19, 
1852.  His parents, Joseph and Katharine Bott, both died while he was 
a child, the mother when he as six, and the father when he was 
fourteen years old.  He worked on a farm at his native place until he 
was seventeen years old, when, in the year 1869, he embarked at 
Bremen, on September 4, and reached Baltimore on October 10.  Coming 
direct to Wheeling, he arrived at that city October 12, 1869, and 
there has made his home ever since.  He was first employed at farm 
work near the city for two years, and he was then for six years 
engaged in coal mining, after which in 1877 he became interested in 
the dairy business, which occupied him for seven years.  He engaged 
in the grocery trade at No. 263 Eoff street, in 1884, and has there 
done a successful business ever since.  He is a popular business man 
and has many friends.  On January 15, 1874, he was married to 
Elizabeth Shaedler, who was born in Hauswurtz, Hessen, Germany, March 
20, 1856, the daughter of Joseph and Dorothea Shaedler, and came to 
America with a sister in 1872.  Mr. Bott made a visit to his native 
land in the, summer of 1886, and on his return brought with him 
Bertha Schwert, his sister's daughter, who has a home in his family.  
Mr. and Mrs. Bott are members of the Catholic church, and he is a 
member of St. Alphonsus society, and the German pioneer society. 


(Linda Fluharty)