C. S. Mott
C. S. Mott
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CHARLES S. MOTTCharles Stewart Mott was born June 2, 1875 in Newark, New Jersey. He is a son of John C. and Isabella Turnbull (Stewart) Mott, the former a native of New York and the latter of New Jersey. John C. Mott and wife were the parents of two children, Charles S., and Edith Stewart, who became the wife of Herbert E. Davis and now lives at Glen Ridge, New Jersey. John C. Mott died in 1899, at the age of forty-nine years, and his widow is now living at Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Until the age of thirteen years, Charles S. Mott attended the public schools and then entered Stevens School at Hoboken, New Jersey. At the age of seventeen he entered the Stevens Institute of Technology. After finishing his sophomore year, in August, 1894, at the age of nineteen years, he went abroad, and for a year pursued the study of zymotechnology and chemistry at Copenhagen and Munich, with a view to taking an active part in his father’s business, the latter having been an extensive maker of cider and vinegar. Upon his return to America he re-entered the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, from which he was graduated in 1897. The next year, upon the breaking out of the Spanish-American War, he enlisted in the Navy receiving rating as gunner’s mate, and served throughout that brief conflict on board the United States ship “Yankee,” being honorably discharged at the end of the war. In 1894 he entered the Naval Militia of New York and received his discharge as chief gunner’s mate in 1900. In 1897 Mr. Mott engaged in business with his father, under the firm name of C. S. Mott & Company, in the manufacture of carbonators. In 1900, the year following the death of the elder Mott, the plant was moved to Utica, New York, and there was merged with that of the Weston-Mott Company, which had been organized in 1896 and of which Mr. Mott was a director, the chief output of that concern having been axles, hubs and rims. In 1907, the present plant of the Weston-Mott Company was established at Flint and has been one of the chief industries of that city. Not long after locating in Flint, Mr. Mott became one of the organizers of the Industrial Savings Bank of Flint and was elected president of the same, a position he has since occupied. This bank was primarily organized as an institution for the benefit of the industrial community. Mr. Mott is also a member of the board of directors of the Genesee County Savings Bank; is a director of the Flint Sandstone and Brick Company, of which concern he is secretary and treasurer; is vice-president and director of the Buick motor company, and is also connected with the directorates of the Copeman Stove Company, the Sterling Motor Company of Detroit, the General Motors company, being a member of it’s executive committee, and the Brown-Lipe-Chapin Company of Syracuse New York. In the spring of 1912, as an independent business man, and without any particular party support, Mr. Mott was elected mayor of Flint, serving two terms, and during his incumbency in that office did much for the general advancement of the city’s interests in the way of public improvement, better streets and better community life generally. He has taken a prominent part in the local work of the Young Men’s Christian Association, of which he is president, and was chairman of the executive committee and a leader in the recent campaign to raise one hundred and twelve thousand dollars for the erection of a new building for the association in Flint. He is a member of the Country Club at Flint, of the Detroit Club and of the Detroit Athletic Club, as well as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Automobile Engineers. He is a Scottish-Rite Mason, a Knight Templar, a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Loyal Order of Moose and the United Spanish War Veterans. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, being a vestryman at St. Paul’s church in Flint. On June 14, 1900, at
New York City, Charles S. Mott was married to Ethel C. Harding, daughter of
Herbert and Aimee (Culbert) Harding, of New York, and to this union three
children have been born: Aimee, born April 15, 1902; Elza Beatrice, November 14,
1904, and Charles Stewart Harding, November 1906, all born in Utica, New York.
The Motts have one of the most beautiful homes in Flint. This article was transcribed by Mrs. Mary E.
Byam from a work by Edwin O. Wood, LL.D., President Michigan Historical
Commission, History of Genesee County Michigan Volume II, Her People,
Industries and Institutions (Federal Publishing Company: Indianapolis, Indiana,
1916), Pages 208ff |
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