We have several Jacob Otts in our family and I do not know for certain which one was auctioning off this apparatus in 1844. However, the advertisement in the newspaper is intriguing.
Soft drinks / Carbonated Water / Soda are older than we think. The origins of soft drinks lie in the development of fruit-flavored drinks. In the medieval Middle East, a variety of fruit-flavored soft drinks were widely drunk.Later, carbonation was added to various flavored drinks. Johann Jacob Schweppe developed a process to manufacture carbonated mineral water in the 1700’s in Geneva. I had not thought of any of our early ancestors drinking soft drinks until I read about Jacob Ott involved in this auction of a “soda apparatus”.
According to Wikipedia, “By the 1840s, there were more than fifty soft drink manufacturers – an increase from just ten in the previous decade.” Our Ott ancestors had a hand in the business.
Source: Soda Apparatus. (New Orleans, LA: The Times Picayune, 23 April 1844) 3; digital image, Newspapers.com: accessed September 2021.
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