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C.S. He successfully expanded the company to include axle production. Then Mott made a crucial move that resulted in great
growth for Weston-Mott and a lifetime of commitment to the community he would come to call home. He had an offer from W. C."
Billy" Durant, the new head of Buick Motor Company, to produce axles for Buick and move the Weston-Mott Co. to Flint, Michigan.
The next years were busy and productive ones for Mott. After Billy Durant established General Motors, he named C. S. Mott to GM's
board of directors in 1913, a position he held until his death. In 1916, he became a vice president of the company. The Weston-Mott
Company was absorbed into General Motors. Though his business responsibilities were many, Mott managed to spend time with his
family (Ethel and their three children, Aimee, Elsa, and Harding) and to actively participate in local community affairs. He was
elected Flint's mayor in 1912, 1913, and 1918. World War I followed and again he served his country, this time as a major in the
Army's Motor Branch.
In the following years, C. S. faced extensive personal change. In 1924, he and his children survived the death of his wife, Ethel
Harding Mott. In 1926, C. S. Mott created the Mott Foundation. Initial grants were made to local service organizations in Flint, as
well as higher education institutions. The foundation also supported development of a boy's camp in the Flint area. In 1934, Mott
married again. His wife was Ruth Rawlings of El Paso, Texas. She also became a philanthropist in later years with creation of the
Ruth Mott Fund. Ruth and C. S. Mott had three children, Susan, Stewart and Maryann.
Beginning in the mid 1930s, the Mott Foundation expanded primarily through the development and support of community education
locally, nationally and eventually overseas. Mott's own interests in young people and the community were evident as he partnered
with Frank J. Manley to create community schools in Flint. These schools included after-school recreational and enrichment
activities for youth and their families. The partnership of these two men began in 1935 when C. S. committed Mott funding to help
keep six Flint schools open after hours. By the early 1960s, all of Flint's schools were operating as community schools with a range
of community education programs.
Since the 1960s, the Mott Foundation has expanded support of the community school concept beyond Flint, throughout the United
States and internationally, and has recently underwritten major support for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Initiative.
Further, with significant growth in assets over these years, the Foundation expanded domestic grantmaking in a range of subject
areas and opened two foreign offices to monitor its grantmaking in Central/Eastern Europe and South Africa. The Foundation, with
estimated year-end assets of $2.93 billion, made 606 grants totaling $153.7 million in 2000.
During the last two decades of Mott's life, he was awarded many honors. In 1954, the International Big Brother of the Year award
was presented to him by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for his work to better the lives of youth. He received the American
Legion's medal for distinguished service. Other awards and recognition came from the American Schools and Colleges Association,
the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers, the American Federation of Labor, and the Michigan Legislature.
Charles Stewart Mott died in 1973. Perhaps the final words written about Motts' philosophy best summarize the man and his
mission. "We recognize that our obligation to fellow men does not stop at the boundaries of the community. In an even larger sense,
every man is in partnership with the rest of the human race in the eternal conquest which we call civilization."
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Bro. Mott moved his axle company to Flint Michigan in 1906, selling 49% of
his company for General Motors stock. The remaining 51% was converted in
1913. He built Applewood Estate, a working farm, in 1912. The 7900 square
foot house was modest in comparison to mansions of Flint's auto magnates.
Mr. Mott was Flint's most generous supporter. Although it was documented
that he never sold a single share of his GM stock, he is known to have bailed
out at least one bank during the depression and donated $106,000,000 for a
hospital at University of Michigan, Flint in the 1960's. He also endowed a four
year college, now C.S. Mott Community College in the 1940's. Although a
generous philanthropist, Mr. Mott was noted for his personal frugality,
documented in many articles that included driving outdated economy cars and
working at the C.S. Mott Foundation without air conditioning in the 1960's. He
died in 1973 but his wife and son continued his charitable endeavors.
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From: James Mott of Dutchess County, NY and His Descendants, by Edward Doubleday Harris, member of the NY Genealogical
and Biographical Society, Press of Tobias A. Wright, 150 Bleecker St., NY
James Mott b. 1783 was the son of Zebulon Mott, b. Long Island 4 Sep 1757. He served as a private in the Continental forces of
the Revolution, stationed on the Hudson, in his home county, in skirmishes with the Tories. Later he was identified with the Friends
in the Nine Partners Meeting, and their records are authority for his removal to Saratoga County 14 Sep 1791. He married 4 Oct
1781 Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Smith of Saratoga, who was born 7/31/1764. His farm was in the township of Half Moon, and he
was a Supervisor of the township in 1801 through 1817, in 1814 being the Moderator of the Board. He died 21 Feb 1842."
Child: John Mott b. 1805 (4 May 1806)
John Mott, b. 1805 (4 May 1806) was the son of James Mott, b. Washington, NY 15 Nov 1783. In his boyhood his father settled in
Half Moon, Saratoga Co., and there he resided until his removal to the Haviland farm in Moreau in 1808. He married 17 Mar 1805
Anstis, dau. of Joseph Merritt, and granddaughter of Ichabod, the first permanent settler in Queensbury. She died 24 Feb 1844.
James Mott died in Moreau 12 Apr 1872.
Child: Samuel Rogers Mott
Samuel Rogers Mott (b. 1826) was the son of John Mott, born in Saratoga County NY, 4 May 1806. He was of Half Moon, and at
one time was in command of the NY State Militia. He married 1 Sep 1825 Jane Gates, who long survived him, and died 15 Mar
1874, aged 68 years. He died 7 Oct 1846, and was buried with his family in Half Moon. His will of 11 Jun 1846 is on record in
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