Biography

John Gott was the eldest son of Benjamin Gott, a woolen manufacturer in England. William Seward visited the factory in 1859, and wrote to his daughter Fanny on July 10, 1859 to describe the visit, " Then at the Gotts  I saw the flax just as it is stripped from its pithy  stalk stretched out by machines until a single pound makes a thread 180,000 yards long, and these threads then woven
into the linen and lawn which only luxury can command"