C. L. Mott

MOTT, FOOTE, FITCH

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 20:53:48

Foote and Mott are general hardware dealers. The partnership was formed in the fall of 1878. C. L. Mott, of this firm, is one of the early settlers of Parkersburg; his residence here dating from 1869. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1842, where he lived till nineteen years of age. In 1861 he went to Galena, Illinois, where, with his father, he engaged in keeping a hotel.
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His parents were Elter and Margaret Mott. In 1868 the family removed from Illinois to this county, and settled at New Hartford. The family removed to Colorado in 1879, where the father died in the fall of 1881. Mr. C. L. Mott went to Ackley, Hardin county, in 1867, where he engaged in the livery business; from Ackley he went to Marietta, coming to Parkersburg in 1869. He established himself here in the mercantile business, which he continued for eight years. While living in Michigan, Mr. Mott had an experience of two years in the banking business, and while in Illinois was engaged in hotel keeping, farming and milling. He married Flora, daughter of George E. Fitch, a prominent early settler of Beaver township. Mr. Mott is the only member of his father’s family now living in Butler county.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 434