Elias Wotring, son of Michael, Sr., was born in 1824, in North Whitehall, where he was brought up on a farm and educated. When a young man he engaged in the butcher business with his brother, Jacob, and continued a partner for eight years. In 1850 he embarked in the lumber business and carried it quite extensively until his decease in 1896, having had his son, Amandus, as a partner since 1870. In 1850, he purchased a farm of 79 acres and afterward carried it on in connection with lumbering. He died in 1896, aged, 72 years, 9 months and 2 days. He was married to Matilda Hartman, daughter of Jacob, farmer and huckster, of Lowhill township, and they had ten children: Francis (m. 1st, Amanda Helfrich, 2d, Mary Leibenguth) : Messina (m. Peter Kohler), Amandus (above); Ellen (m. George Peifley); Richard (m. Alice Krause); Emma (m. John Peter); Alice (m. Owen Handwerk); Wallace (m. Delia Trumbauer); Wesley (m. Alice Ritter), and Harvey (m. Eda Clauss).