Louis Rott (1844)

Born 22 Oct 1844 in Badenhausen, Germany

Ancestors

Biography

From History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania:

Louis, the youngest, at Homestead.

Louis Rott, cashier, Homestead, was born Oct. 22, 1844, in Badenhausen, near Hartz, Germany, a son of Christian and Louise (Mahn) Rott;

In 1876 Mr. Rott married Arabella J. McCandless, who has borne him four sons: Louis Ed., Robert George, Charles H. and Albert J.

From Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania:

LOUIS ROTT, of Homestead, Pa., a prominent financier and president of the First National bank, was born in the duchy of Brunswick, near the Hartz mountains, Germany, Oct. 22, 1844, son of Christian and Louisa (Heiseker) Rott;

He was married, on July 19, 1876, to Arabella J., daughter of Robert McCandless, and they had three children: L. Edwin, cashier of the First National bank of Homestead; R. George, with the Homestead steel company, and Albert John, an invalid. Mrs. Rott died on Nov. 29, 1889, and, on May 17, 1891, Mr. Rott was married to Margaret Virginia McCandless, a sister of his former wife, and their wedded life has been a rarely happy one.

Sources

• Cushing, Thomas. History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (A. Warner & Co., Chicago, 1889, Part 2: p. 356, 696)
• Northwestern Historical Association. Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Northwest Historical Association., Madison, Wisconsin, 1904, Vol. 1, p. 273-274)