Lawrence Mott

Lawrence Mott
Born1881 
Died1931  (aged 49–50)

Jordan Lawrence Mott IV (1881–1931), often referred to as Jordan Lawrence Mott III and better known as Lawrence Mott, was an American novelist and writer on the outdoor life. He was the great-grandson of Jordan L. Mott (born 1799), who founded the J. L. Mott Iron Works in New York City. His grandfather was Jordan Lawrence Mott II (November 10, 1829 – July 26, 1915), and his father was Jordan Lawrence Mott III (May 13, 1857 – January 7, 1932).[1][2]

After graduating from Harvard, Mott worked as a journalist, and married Carolyn Pitkin (1881–1967).[1] In 1912 he sailed to China on a freighter, the Indrade, with opera singer, Mrs. Francis Hewitt Bowne: he was listed as purser and she was disguised as a cabin boy. Lawrence and Francis were living in Hong Kong when his father disinherited him. When World War One broke out, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and was commissioned Major. After the war, the couple moved to Santa Catalina Island, California where Lawrence wrote and became an early radio personality.[3] The couple married in 1928 after their respective partners had divorced them.[4][5][6][7] His published works include Jules of the Great Heart: "free" trapper and outlaw in the Hudson Bay region in the early days (1905),[8] To the Credit of the Sea (1907),[9] The White Darkness, and other stories of the Great North-West (1907),[10] and Prairie, Snow and Sea (1910).[11] He pioneered fishing for steelhead on the North Umpqua River, Oregon, and a bridge and a section of the North Umpqua Trail bears the name Mott in his memory. His love of the outdoor life led him to campaign for the conservation of wildlife and natural resources.[3] He established a fishing camp near Steamboat Creek, where he died, of leukemia, in 1931.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Descendants of George Mott (1572—1615)". Mott families 1572-1989. Retrieved October 18, 2009.
  2. ^ "Jordan L. Mott Dies on Yacht Cruise". The New York Times. January 8, 1932. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Steamboat history". Steamboat Inn. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  4. ^ "Mott Family Papers, 1840-1954". The Lemelson Centre for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Archived from the original on August 5, 2010. Retrieved July 18, 2009. - note that this gives an incorrect death date of "c.1913" for JLMott III
  5. ^ "Milestones, Jun. 15, 1931: Died, Major Jordan Lawrence Mott". Time. June 15, 1931. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  6. ^ "Death Ends Life of Romance for Man Who Left $25,000,000 for love". The Evening Independent. June 4, 1931. Retrieved July 18, 2009 – via Google News.
  7. ^ "Mott and actress reach Gibraltar" (PDF). The New York Times. June 1, 1912. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  8. ^ "Jules of the great heart (full text available online)". American Libraries. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  9. ^ "To the credit of the sea (full text available online)". American Libraries. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  10. ^ "The White Darkness (full text available online)". American Libraries. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  11. ^ "Catalogue records". British Library. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  12. ^ Berryman, Jack W. "Pioneers and legends; Jordan Lawrence Mott III". The North Umpqua Foundation. Archived from the original on June 5, 2004. Retrieved July 18, 2009. - reproduced from Northwest Fly Fishing


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