# Lawrence Mott

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**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](/source/Jordan_L._Mott) (born 1799), who founded the [J. L. Mott Iron Works](/source/J._L._Mott_Iron_Works) in [New York City](/source/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](/source/Harvard_University), 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](/source/U.S._Army_Signal_Corps) and was commissioned Major. After the war, the couple moved to [Santa Catalina Island, California](/source/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](/source/Rainbow_trout) on the [North Umpqua River](/source/North_Umpqua_River), [Oregon](/source/Oregon), and a [bridge](/source/Mott_Bridge) and a section of the [North Umpqua Trail](/source/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](/source/Steamboat_Creek_(Umpqua_River)), where he died, of [leukemia](/source/Leukemia), in 1931.[12]

## References

1. ["Descendants of George Mott (1572—1615)"](http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/ODTs/MOTT.shtml#~MOTT). *Mott families 1572-1989*. Retrieved October 18, 2009.

1. ["Jordan L. Mott Dies on Yacht Cruise"](https://www.nytimes.com/1932/01/08/archives/jordan-l-mott-dies-on-yacht-cruise-is-victim-of-a-heart-attack-at.html). *The New York Times*. January 8, 1932. Retrieved April 22, 2025.

1. ["Steamboat history"](https://www.thesteamboatinn.com/history). *Steamboat Inn*. Retrieved March 29, 2022.

1. ["Mott Family Papers, 1840-1954"](http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100805200859/http%3A//invention.smithsonian.org/resources/MIND_Repository_Details.aspx?rep_id%3D662). *The Lemelson Centre for the Study of Invention and Innovation*. Archived from [the original](http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/MIND_Repository_Details.aspx?rep_id=662) on August 5, 2010. Retrieved July 18, 2009. - note that this gives an incorrect death date of "c.1913" for JLMott III

1. ["Milestones, Jun. 15, 1931: Died, Major Jordan Lawrence Mott"](https://web.archive.org/web/20081215014712/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846915,00.html). *[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))*. June 15, 1931. Archived from [the original](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846915,00.html) on December 15, 2008. Retrieved July 18, 2009.

1. ["Death Ends Life of Romance for Man Who Left $25,000,000 for love"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19310604&id=T8sLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=glQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5446,1816562). *The Evening Independent*. June 4, 1931. Retrieved July 18, 2009. – via Google News.

1. ["Mott and actress reach Gibraltar"](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/06/01/100536483.pdf). *The New York Times*. June 1, 1912. Retrieved July 18, 2009.

1. ["Jules of the great heart (full text available online)"](https://archive.org/details/julesofgreathear00mottrich). *American Libraries*. Retrieved July 18, 2009.

1. ["To the credit of the sea (full text available online)"](https://archive.org/details/tocreditsea00mottgoog). *American Libraries*. Retrieved July 18, 2009.

1. ["The White Darkness (full text available online)"](https://archive.org/details/whitedarknessand00mottiala). *American Libraries*. Retrieved July 18, 2009.

1. ["Catalogue records"](http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/RXP8ADIA5VHH6RTFICJFJ2VF644MLBRSRSES58YYG4D4D7NLBM-17917?func=find-acc&acc_sequence=024387672). *British Library*. Retrieved July 18, 2009.

1. Berryman, Jack W. ["Pioneers and legends; Jordan Lawrence Mott III"](https://archive.today/20040605190938/http://www.northumpqua.org/river/mott.html). *The North Umpqua Foundation*. Archived from [the original](http://www.northumpqua.org/river/mott.html) on June 5, 2004. Retrieved July 18, 2009. - reproduced from *Northwest Fly Fishing*

## External links

- [Finding aid to Mott family papers records at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.](http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079138/)

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