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Samuel R. Mott (Auglaize County, Ohio, attorney and captain & colonel (U.S.A.))

b. 1818-01-26 d. 1896-01-15

Auglaize County, Ohio, attorney, politician, and soldier. Knox County, Ohio, native. Son of Gideon Mott and Anne Newell Mott. Married to Caroline Kepner Mott in Auglaize County in 1843. Father of John Mott, Thomas Mott, Walter Mott, Willis A. Mott, Mary Mott, Charles W. Mott, and Benjamin Mott. Bricklayer and plasterer in Auglaize County from 1833 to 1836. Bricklayer and plasterer in Auglaize County in 1838. Teacher in Auglaize County in the fall of 1838. Student of law in Piqua, Ohio, from 1840 to 1842. Prosecuting attorney in Mercer County, Ohio, in 1846. Prosecuting attorney in Auglaize County in 1848. Elected to the Ohio Legislature as a democrat in 1848. Served in the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain from April 1861 to July 1861. Served in the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain in October 1861. Served in the 118th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from October 5, 1861, to February 10, 1864. Honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in March 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Auglaize, Saint Marys, p. 506B.

Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1866, vol. 8 (Cincinnati: The Ohio Valley Press, 1888), 217.

C. W. Williamson, History of Western Ohio and Auglaize County (Columbus, OH: W.M. Linn & Sons, 1905), 682-84.

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Mott, Samuel R.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209596 (November 12, 2026).

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