Charlotte Mignon Crabtree, known on stage as "Lotta", was born in New York City on November 7, 1847.
Lotta made her debut as an actress at the age of 6 at Petalumba, California, where she did song and dance routines. She was so popular with the miners during the California gold rush that they pitched bags of gold nuggets at her feet.
At the Grass Valley mining camp she met Lola Montez, who taught her dancing and stagecraft.
Lotta continued to be a very popular performer until her retirement from the stage in 1891, when she was said to be worth $2,000,000. Lotta was the richest stage performer at the time, and owned a number of hotels and other real estate in Boston, where she spent the last 7 years of her life. She never married and left most of her fortune to charity.
Lotta died at the Hotel Brewster in Boston on September 25, 1924 at the age of 77.
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