Philipp Ott was born in Bayreuth, Germany, on October 11, 1831, the son of Charles and Catherine Semmelman Ott.
Phillip Ott and his brothers became wards of the Bayreuth court after the death of their parents. He attended the Royal Study Institution (High School) from 1844 to 1848 and graduated in five languages. He had an uncle who immigrated to the United States and settled in St. He and his sister, Johanna, emigrated to America sailing from Bremen with Adam Opel’s circle of relatives and arriving in New Orleans after 53 days at sea. From there, they traveled down the Mississippi River to St. Louis.
Philipp worked for his uncle in his sales business. When the uncle died in 1851, Philipp bought the business and operated it until 1853. He met and married Elizabeth Wippenbeck, a local from Germany, on April 14, 1853. After promoting his business later that year, he and Elizabeth moved to Marion, a town in Cole County.
In Marion, he built a double log space with a central aisle. He had a small selling business and also sold firewood to steamboats on the river. as a deputy sheriff of Cole County his time living in Marion.
During the Civil War, Philipp was a supporter of the Union cause. In 1865, bushwhackers stormed its space and demanded cash and goods. They shot him in the leg and took $165, about $3,000 in cash today, as well as goods.
In 1865, he was appointed to pass county sentencing through Governor Thomas Fletcher and was elected to two more terms (1865–1871). From then on, he was still known as Judge Ott. He also built the first brick space in Marion in 1870. , and it is still a state today.
Upon moving to Jefferson City in 1882, Philipp purchased a 50% stake in the A. W. Becker Lumber Company at the time at the corner of Jefferson and Capitol Avenues. In 1889, Ott bought the remaining 50% of the timber business and renamed it Philipp Ott. Timber and hardware company.
That same year, Ott invited him to run for mayor to settle some of the disorders that had developed with that office. He elected on April 2, 1889, and at his request mayor for a salary of $1 a year. Louis Ott, his son, accompanied him at this time in the company.
Ott was also one of the first presidents of the City of Jefferson Commercial Club, now known as the City of Jefferson Chamber of Commerce.
Around 1902 or 1905, the wooden backyard closed its Jefferson and Capitol facility and moved into the building it had built on West High Street next to the existing post office. You can see it today and the most sensible thing about construction is the so-called Ott The old wooden assets for advertisements were sold in the early 1940s and eventually became the site of the Jefferson State Office Building.
The space he built for his circle of relatives in the three hundred block of East High Street, next to Cole County Courtspace. His daughter, Kate, lived next door to her parents in a space her father had built for her. the site of the annex to the existing judicial area.
Philipp is one of the largest taxpayers in Cole County and still the first to pay his county and municipal taxes each year.
Judge Ott’s motto was, “You are the master of the undeclared word, the word is your teacher. “He never said a harsh word that might have a bad symbol for someone.
Philipp Ott died in the house on 18 September 1918 and his wife died in 1927. Both are buried in Ott’s mausoleum at Riverview Cemetery. It is the first mausoleum built in Riverside Cemetery. It costs $2500.
In his 1918 will, he left cash to several of his German relatives and $3,000 to his best school in Bayreuth with the instruction that only interest be used to buy books for needy students. This fund, which now amounts to about $35,000, is still used to pay for books and student activities.
His son, Louis, continued the lumber business’s circle of relatives for many years, reaching the Wagner and Fairmount Place neighborhoods eastward in the 1920s and 1930s. Louis first lived in a beautiful space at 200 Jefferson Street, across from the lumber industry. In the community he developed, he built one of the most sublime houses on Moreau Drive, where he moved in with his circle of relatives in 1931.
Henry Gensky Jr. is a Jefferson City venue. Upon retirement, he devoted much time to researching history. He serves as an excursion consultant for the Missouri State Capitol building.