Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Barney OTT, farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Gooding's Grove; was born in Baden, Germany, June 5, 1821; 
he lived with his parents fifteen years; from that time up to the age of 21, he worked at the 
trade of weaver; he came to America in 1842; and the first year lived in Onondaga Co., N. Y.,
working in a salt factory; from there he went to Canada, remaining two years farming; in 1846, 
he came to this State and lived in Du Page Co. nineteen years farming, when he moved to this
county (1865), and purchased the farm upon which he now resides, of 152 acres. He married Miss 
Elizabeth WALTER (daughter of Andrew WALTER, of Darmstadt, Germany,) in Du Page Co., Sept. 10, 
1851; she was born June 8, 1831; they had thirteen children - Frank, born Feb. 16, 1853, died 
Feb. 26, 1854; Michael, born May 10, 1854; Eva, Oct. 30, 1855; Catharine, born April 16, 1857, 
died Feb. 26, 1858; Mary, born Feb. 2, 1859; Libbie, Jan. 8, 1861; John, Aug. 8, 1862; Katie, 
July 14, 1864; Peter, Jan. 2, 1866; Clara, March 20, 1868; Emma, March 9, 1870; Maggie, Oct. 
21, 1872; and George B., Nov. 24, 1874.