father, Barton Mott, was an active layman, who did much toward the
planting of Methodism in Scranton, and was superintendent of the first
Sabbath school in the city.
He worked as a farm hand in his younger days and between terms of school. He attended New Columbus Academy and Wyoming Seminary. He taught school two terms before entering the
ministry.
He was converted when a lad of fifteen years, but felt called to the ministry when a small child. He received exhorter's license February 6, 1869, local preacher's license April 2, 1871, and joined the Conference in 1872.
While retired from active work he lived at Pike's Creek, Luzerne County, PA.
His pastoral record is as follows:
1872; Lehman;
1873-75, Stoddartsville;
1876-77, Beach Pond;
1878, Narrowsburg;
1879-81, Canaan;
1882-83, Sterling;
1884-85, sy.;
1886-88, Lehman;
1889-92, Hornbrook;
1893-95, Orwell;
1896-1902, sd.;
1903, Noxen.
History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopl Church
father, Barton Mott, was an active layman, who did much toward the
planting of Methodism in Scranton, and was superintendent of the first
Sabbath school in the city.
He worked as a farm hand in his younger days and between terms of school. He attended New Columbus Academy and Wyoming Seminary. He taught school two terms before entering the
ministry.
He was converted when a lad of fifteen years, but felt called to the ministry when a small child. He received exhorter's license February 6, 1869, local preacher's license April 2, 1871, and joined the Conference in 1872.
While retired from active work he lived at Pike's Creek, Luzerne County, PA.
His pastoral record is as follows:
1872; Lehman;
1873-75, Stoddartsville;
1876-77, Beach Pond;
1878, Narrowsburg;
1879-81, Canaan;
1882-83, Sterling;
1884-85, sy.;
1886-88, Lehman;
1889-92, Hornbrook;
1893-95, Orwell;
1896-1902, sd.;
1903, Noxen.
History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopl Church
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