BIO: Philip M. Mott, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 374.
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  Mott, Philip M., was born on February 17, 1843, in Scranton, Pa. His 
father, Barton Mott, was an active layman, who did much toward the 
planting of Methodism in Scranton, and was superintendent of the first 
Sabbath school in the city. He worked as a farm hand in his younger 
days and between terms of school. He attended New Columbus Academy and 
Wyoming Seminary. He taught school two terms before entering the 
ministry.
  He was converted when a lad of fifteen years, but felt called to the 
ministry when a small child. He received exhorter's license February 6, 
1869, local preacher's license April 2, 1871, and joined the Conference 
in 1872.
  While retired from active work he lived at Pike's Creek, Luzerne 
County, Pa.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1872; Lehman; 1873-75, 
Stoddartsville; 1876-77, Beach Pond; 1878, Narrowsburg; 1879-81, 
Canaan; 1882-83, Sterling; 1884-85, sy.; 1886-88, Lehman; 1889-92, 
Hornbrook; 1893-95, Orwell; 1896-1902, sd.; 1903, Noxen.