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Lawrence Mott : ウィキペディア英語版 | Lawrence Mott Jordan Lawrence Mott IV (1881–1931), often referred to as Jordan Lawrence Mott III and better known as Lawrence Mott, was an American novelist and writer on the outdoor life. He was the great-grandson of Jordan L. Mott (born 1799), who founded the J. L. Mott Iron Works in New York. His grandfather was Jordan Lawrence Mott II (10 November 1829 – 26 July 1915), and his father was Jordan Lawrence Mott III (born 13 May 1857).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Descendants of George Mott (1572—1615) )〕 After graduating from Harvard, Mott worked as a journalist, and married Carolyn Pitkin (1881–1967).〔 In 1912 he sailed to China on a freighter, the ''Indrade'', with a light opera singer, Mrs Francis Hewitt Bowne: he was listed as purser and she was disguised as a cabin boy. The couple married in 1928 after their respective partners had divorced them.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mott Family Papers, 1840-1954 ) - note that this gives an incorrect death date of "c.1913" for JLMott III〕 His published works include ''Jules of the Great Heart: “free” trapper and outlaw in the Hudson Bay region in the early days'' (1905),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jules of the great heart (full text available online) )〕 ''To the Credit of the Sea'' (1907),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=To the credit of the sea (full text available online) )〕 ''The White Darkness, and other stories of the Great North-West'' (1907),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The White Darkness (full text available online) )〕 and ''Prairie, Snow and Sea'' (1910).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Catalogue records )〕 He pioneered fishing for steelhead on the North Umpqua River, Oregon, and a bridge and a section of the North Umpqua Trail bear the name Mott in his memory. He established a fishing camp near Steamboat Creek, where he died, of leukemia, in 1931.〔 - reproduced from ''Northwest Fly Fishing''〕 ==References==
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