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Largely through the work of the present incumbent, Dr. John R. Mott, the position of General Secretary of the Association has come to be regarded as "most potent lay position in the religious world." Born in Livingston Manor, N. Y., Dr. Mott spent his boyhood in Postville, Iowa. He and his father, a lumber dealer, were "converted" by a secretary from Des Moines when the younger Mott was 14 years old. He was graduated from Cornell University* in 1888 and the same year he went to Mount Hermon, Mass., attended the Bible study class of Dwight L. Moody, uneducated, forceful...
...Mott & Ramsey continue the work begun by one George Williams, clerk in a London draper's establishment, before either Ramsey or Mott was born. In 1844 Clerk Williams and a dozen God-fearing fellows formed a discussion-and-prayer group which they called the Young Men's Christian Association. Six years later there were chapters in Montreal & Boston; eight years later the first collegiate "Y" was formed at the University of Virginia...
Married. Major Jordan Lawrence Mott 3d of Santa Catalina Island, Calif., grandson of the late Ironmaster Jordan Lawrence Mott; and Mrs. Frances Hewett Bowne (Frances Gibson), onetime operetta singer (The Chocolate Soldier); in Merced, Calif. In 1912 Major Mott eloped from New York with Mrs. Bowne. He left his wife, two children; she left Manufacturer Bowne. They shipped as purser & stewardess aboard a British freighter. In Japan Major Mott received the Order of the Rising Sun, edited a temperance monthly, wrote stories. Eight years ago Mr. Bowne divorced his wife. Last year the first Mrs. Mott consented to a divorce...
Charles S. Mott, Vice President of General Motors. Reason: "The country's best economic and spiritual welfare...
...English valet was arrested on a tip from a Manhattan pawnbroker. He confessed to the police that he had stolen the jewels and hidden them in an old coat in his closet in Sir Ashley's house. The jewels were returned to their owner, Mrs. Eleanor Mott, wife of a young plumbing executive and daughter of Sir Ashley...