William Erastus Gott was a great-great-grandson of Daniel Gott Jr. (1739-1814) and Hannah Norwood (1744-1836).
William Erastus Gott was born on November 16, 1874 to Erastus L. Gott and Rachel W. (Milliken) Gott at Gotts Island, Maine. William married Emma Lillian Joyce (1877-1954) on April 24, 1897 in Tremont, Maine. William Erastus Gott died in 1939 at Gotts Island, Maine.