Charles Francis Lott

1866)[1][2][3] was a New Jersey physician and a surgeon who served in the War of 1812, in which he raised a company of light horse cavalry and became a medical director and assistant adjutant general.

[4] His father served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and Lott "remembered the battle of Princeton as well as that of Trenton" from his childhood.

[8] Returning to New Jersey, "his practice was quite extensive",[1] and included the furnaces in Speedwell, Hanover and Batsto, and to the County almshouse.

[1][3] One of his sons, Charles Fayette Lott, born July 1, 1824, became a state legislator and judge in Butte County, California.

[7] When Charles Fayette sought to travel to California, Lott opposed it and cut off funds to the son, who then mortgaged property to be able to make the journey.