BIO: Nelson F. MOTT, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 841 & 842.
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  NELSON F. MOTT, general farmer and mail carrier, in Bell Township, Clearfield 
County, Pa., was born January 19, 1872, in Jefferson County, Pa., and is a son 
of David H. and Letitia M. (Miller) Mott.
  David H. Mott was born in Bell Township, Clearfield County, on the farm now 
owned by Mrs. S. S. Mott, widow of Sam'l S. Mott.  He has followed farming and 
lumbering all his life and is still quite active, although now in his sixty-
third year.  He married Letitia M. Miller, who is somewhat younger than her 
husband.  Her parents were Angus and Elizabeth (Ballentine) Miller.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Mott have had four children:  Nelson R.; Elmer, who is deceased; W. 
Benjamin, who lives in West Virginia; and Angus Miller.
  Nelson F. Mott, when his school days were over, engaged for ten years in the 
saw-mill business and for the years following his marriage, at Curry Run, and 
farmed one year at McGee's Mills.  In 1906 he erected his present residence 
adjoining his grandfather's old homestead.  It is situated near the old Whiskey 
Run schoolhouse, which was the first structure used for school purposes in 
Clearfield County.
  Mr. Mott married first, Mrs. Maggie I. Peoples, a daughter of John Peoples, of 
Rockton, Clearfield County, Pa.  Mrs. Mott died October 8, 1902, at the age of 
twenty-five years.  They had three children, two of whom are now deceased, the 
one survivor being Arthur, now aged ten years.  Mr. Mott was married secondly to 
Mrs. Pearl (Bagley) Kring, widow of Jacob Kring.  Mrs. Kring has one son, Ralph, 
who is fourteen years old and is attending school.  Mr. and Mrs. Mott are 
members of Mt. Bethel Methodist Protestant Church, in which he is a steward.  He 
has passed all the chairs in the lodge of Odd Fellows at Mahaffey.  Mr. Mott has 
carried on general farming with his father but since 1906 his time has been 
mainly occupied as a Rural Free Delivery mail carrier, distributing from McGee's 
Mills.  In politics he is a Prohibitionist.