From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 393-394.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


SAMUEL OTT

Samuel Ott, one of the pioneer merchants of Wheeling, was born at 
Woodstock, Va., in 1793, and in 1837, came to Wheeling and formed a 
partnership with Joseph Pollock in the hardware trade.  On Mr.  
Pollock's retirement three years later, he associated himself with 
Jacob R. Grier, and the firm thus formed continued for ten or fifteen 
years.  He was also associated for about ten years with John E. Boyd 
in the wholesale dry goods business.  In about the year 1854 he 
admitted his son, M. L. Ott and Samuel J. Boyd, to a partnership in 
the hardware business, and when four years later Boyd retired, Henry 
Ott was admitted to the firm, which became known as S. Ott, Son & Co.  
Samuel Ott died in 1868, and subsequently two sons and William P. 
Heiskell became partners in the hardware business, which is still 
continued under the old firm name, and is one of the prominent and 
widely known houses of Wheeling.  Samuel Ott did not confine his 
enterprise to his mercantile transactions, but was also president of 
the Wheeling cotton mill, president of the Merchants' and Mechanics' 
bank, and a director of the Wheeling Savings institution.  His wife 
Sidney I., was born in Winchester, Va., a daughter of John Heiskell, 
a well-known journalist of that place.  She died in 1881 at the age 
of seventy-three years.  Of the seven children born to these parents 
six are living. 


(Linda Fluharty)