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Also called |
Abe, Pa or Pa Mott |
Born |
17 Jan 1879 |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania |
- Parents: Abram Cox Mott and Kate Eckfeldt
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Gender |
Male |
Residence |
Sumneytown Pike, Gwynedd PA, previously "The Woods" East Main Street, Lansdale PA |
Religion |
Society of Friends |
Military Service |
WW1: US Army Bugler, Gassed in the trenches in France.------ WW2: Civil Defense Air Raid Warden, Lansdale, PA |
Church Membership |
Gwynedd Friends Meeting |
Education |
Penn Charter HS, Philadelphia PA 1896, Cornell University, Ithaca New York 1900, (did not complete his last year) |
Occupation |
Abram Cox Stove Co, American and Dauphin Streets, Philadelphia and Reading RR and Cannon Avenue,Lansdale PA,1898-1904 apprentice Drafting Department, 1907 General Business Manager and Superintendent, worked his way up to Vice President and finally President, employed about 600 people, From 1905 on Consulting Engineer-Buckhorn Portland Cement Company, Manheim, West Virginia, Co-Owner E.C. Geiger Rototiller Sales, Wales Junction, Upper Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, Inventor- holder of many patents. |
Organization Memberships |
Union League, Free and Accepted Masons, Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, American Kennel Club, Philadelphia Country Club, Penn Athletic Club-charter member, Twin Pike Gun Club, Edgemere Club, Oak Terrace Country Club, Republican. |
Interests |
Cooking, Dog breeder: German Police Dogs and Great Danes, Experimental greenhouse gardener at "The Woods": foods and flowers, Wine Making, Cards ,Books, Billiards, History, At Cornell: Football and Bicycle Racing. Current events, Inventing and hand making working models of Kitchen Gadgets, Pike County Pennsylvania, Each day he would listen to Gabriel Heatter on WOR, NY on the radio for the latest world news. |
Died |
25 Feb 1953 |
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania |
Buried |
27 Feb 1953 |
West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania |
Person ID |
I268463 |
Strausstown Roots | ~DavidMoyer |
Last Modified |
31 Mar 2018 |
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Father |
Abram Cox Mott, b. 24 Feb 1850, Moreau, Saratoga County, New York , d. 06 May 1925, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania |
Mother |
Katherine Eckfeldt, b. 31 Jan 1849, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania , d. 16 Nov 1931, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania |
Married |
06 Feb 1871 |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania |
Family ID |
F89120 |
Group Sheet |
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Family |
Katherine Middleton, b. 20 Jun 1879, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania , d. 03 Dec 1964, Swede and Powell Sts, Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania |
Married |
30 Oct 1901 |
Children |
| 1. Katherine Mott, b. 30 Jun 1903, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 31 May 1991, Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania  |
> | 2. Abram Cox Mott, 3rd, b. 07 Feb 1908, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 18 Jul 1978, Guadalajara, Mexico  |
> | 3. Helen Mott, b. 09 Sep 1916, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 22 May 1980, Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania  |
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Last Modified |
01 Jul 2017 |
Family ID |
F88559 |
Group Sheet |
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Photos |
 | Abram Cox Stove Company, Philadelphia
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 | Abram Cox Stove Company
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 | Abram Cox Stove Company, Lansdale
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 | Abram Cox Stove Company, Lansdale, 1902
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 | Abram Cox Mott 3rd, Abram Cox Mott Jr, Katherine "Kay" Mott, 1910
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 | "The Woods" Mott Family Home
Lansdale, PA, 1907, before remodeling |
 | Katherine Middleton Mott, Maryan Holton Hopper Mott and Abram Cox Mott Jr in front of his 1935 Plymouth 4 door Sedan, 1937 |
 | Mott Family, 1920, Edgemere, Pike Co., PA back - Abram Cox Mott, Kate Eckfeldt Mott, Merle Eckfeldt Mott
2nd - Helen Alice Mott Greene, Katherine (Kay) Mott, A C Mott, Jr
1st - A C Mott 3rd, Kate Mott Greene, Helen Mott
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 | The "Woods" after remodeling, winter 1913
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 | The Woods, 2010
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 | "ROOF PEAK CAT" BY ABRAM COX MOTT JR.
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 | Abram Cox Mott, Jr and David Bruce Moyer MD at "The Woods" 1939
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 | PRINT FROM MERLE MOTT 1903, FIRST WEDDING PRESENT RECIEVED BY ABRAM COX MOTT JR AND KATHERINE MIDDLETON. |
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Sources |
- [S465] David George Moyer, Mott-Wheeler - 2nd Marriage for Helen Mott, 29 Jun 2017.
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