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The Ott family, Johann Jacob Ott, 48, his wife Maria, and children Jacob, Caspar, Christian, Lorenz, Philip, Magdalena (Mary?), emigrated to the United States from Alsace in the early 1830s. They first settled in Pennsylvania, later settling in Deerfield, Illinois. Mary Salome Ott married Philip Brand and settled in Highland Park, Illinois.

The Caspar Ott House, part of the Deerfield Historic Village, is the oldest standing dwelling in Lake County, Illinois.

Rollin M. Pease was one of 9 children of Daniel and Katharine B. (née James) Pease. The Pease family settled in Highwood, Illinois in 1889 where Oak Terrace School was erected. Pease, a bass-baritone concert vocalist, served as director of the voice department at Northwestern University for several years until 1931 when he received an appointment as director of the Voice Department at the University of Arizona.