JOSIAH MOTT, retired; P. O.St. Paris; son of Josiah Mott,Sr., who was born in Connecticut about 1759, where he remained until the age of 18 when he enlisted in the war of independence, passing through many privations and hardships. At the close of the war, he was on the present site of Cincinnati, Ohio (Ft. Washington)  where he married, and by that union had five children, of whom all are now dead. He married  for his second wife, Eunice Palmer, born in Vermont about 1793;the issue of this union was ten children, of whom eight are now living. During the War of 1812 Josiah Mott, Sr., served in the ranks of the army; as a patriot and soldier) he deserves honorable mention in the list of our country's dcfenders ; his death occurred in 1837. Our subject ( the eldest son of the second marriage) was born in Franklin, Warren Co, Ohio, July 30, 1812, where he grew to manhood on the farm, and acquired a limited education in the subscription schools. In the fall of 1831, he married Mary A Schoby, born in New Jersey, and came West with her parents to Ohio at the age of three years; their companionship lasted a period of thirty-five years and five months, when death seized her and she was consigned to the silent tomb; she had fourteen  childten of whom eight now survive. In the spring of 1832, Josiah Mott, Jr., located in Clark Co., Ohio, where he was variously engaged until 1836, at which time he commenced  farming rented land, and followed the same until 1851, when he bought 80 acres of land and in Elizabeth Township, Miami Co.; six years later, he sold out, and located on his  present farm, in Jackson Township, Champaign Co., Ohio, which now consists of 227 1/2 acres ; in March, 1875, he purchased his present beautiful home of 17 acres, in the corporation of St. Paris, where he located the following fall, and is now finely situated  for life. His second marriage was celebrated Aug. 8, 1869, with Margaret (Greene) McInally, born in Miami Co, OH in 1826. At the date of the last marriage, the family was increased with his wife's children, and they, with his, lived as agreeably as if all were brothers and sisters. Mr Mott has, during his time, attentively cared for his two mothers-in-law, one of whom recently died at the age of 89 years, and one now survives at the age of 79. Thus has he shown a charitable life, which, for years past, has been spent in the practice of the doctrine of the Universalist Church.