Jordan Lawrence Mott IV 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

Jordan L. Mott

Jordan Lawrence Mott was an American inventor and industrialist. He established the J. L. Mott Iron Works in New York.His father was Jacob Mott, an alderman of New York in 1804-1810 and at one time acting mayor of the city, after whom Mott Street was named. Jacob's wife was related to James...

 (born 1799), who founded the J. L. Mott Iron Works

J. L. Mott Iron Works

The J. L. Mott Iron Works was established by Jordan L. Mott in New York in the area now called Mott Haven in 1828; the business was continued by his son, J.L. Mott, Jr. The elder Mott specialised in the manufacture of cooking-stoves fueled with anthracite coal...

 in New York

New York

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. 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).

After graduating from Harvard

Harvard University

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, 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. His published works include Jules of the Great Heart: “free” trapper and outlaw in the Hudson Bay region in the early days (1905), To the Credit of the Sea (1907), The White Darkness, and other stories of the Great North-West (1907), and Prairie, Snow and Sea (1910). He pioneered fishing for steelhead

Rainbow trout

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 on the North Umpqua River

North Umpqua River

The North Umpqua River is a tributary of the Umpqua River, approximately long, in southwestern Oregon in the United States. It drains a scenic and rugged area of the Cascade Range southwest of Eugene, flowing through steep canyons and surrounded by large Douglas-fir forests...

, Oregon

Oregon

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, and a bridge and a section of the North Umpqua Trail

North Umpqua Trail

The North Umpqua Trail is a multi-use trail open for hiking, mountain biking and horse-back riding that follows the North Umpqua River in Southern Oregon, United States. The trail is about long. It is broken up into 11 sections, ranging from 3.5 to in length...

 bear the name Mott in his memory. He established a fishing camp near Steamboat Creek, where he died, of leukemia

Leukemia

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, in 1931.