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Genealogy Fi l e
MARCUS M3TE
MARCUS ^K?^E
Marcus Mete, son
of
David and
Miriam Mendenhall Mote, was bom June
19 ,
1817
near West Milton, Ohio . Marcus was a f if th
generation birthright
American
Quaker.
His
parents were menbers of West Branch Monthly Meeting of The
Religious Society of Friends.
Mote moved to the Waynesville, Ohio area in th e
late
1830s. He taught
a t
the
Turtle Creek School in Warren County, Ohio, just southeast of Waynesville
in
1836 and 1837. At
that
time, he
attended
Quarterly Meeting in Waynesville
MiamiMeeting) vbere at one time he was clerk
of the
Meeting. Miami Meeting
members
protested
his
a rt
work. Quakers
a t
that
time
as
earlier
were traditionally
not schooled
in
the fine
arts.Such
interest and vocations were
considered
worldly
and
frivolous
and were
not
accepted by the religious gmup vhich
advocated
plainess
in
a ll aspects of daily l i fe. Mote s talents and art work almost
got
him
dosowned
by the Meeting.
While teaching a t Turtle Creek School, Mote was t aken with Rhoda Steddcm, one of
his
students, also a f i f th
generation birthright
American
Quaker.
Marcus
and
Rhoda were married November 11, 1837 a t
the
Orthodox Friends
Meeting
House
a t
Waynesville before moving to West
Milton
vhere the f i r s t of the i r chi ldra i were bom.
The couple retumed to the Waynesville area with their family a few years
la ter .
They resided in
a
two
story brick hcme on the old Middletown Road near Turtle Creek
Friends
Meeting House
in
a neighborhood
sett led
by
Rhoda's
family.
The
house s t i l l
stands
and in 1989 is owned by James Thombury. Marcus planned to
use an unf in ished
roan
in the
home
for his studio and
may
have
for a
short period.
However,
most of
his
work
centered
in Lebanon, Ohio, Warren County seat, vhere he frequently painted
portrai ts a t
the Golden amb Inn. He also
painted
in
the
surrounding v il lages vh il e
keeping Lebanon as a base fo r h is airt work.
Marcus
found
t di f f icu l t to
col lect
debts.
His
portrai t work was not
popular with
the public a t f ir st . He tumed to other work to make a
l iv ing.
Mote
decorated
stagecoaches for the
H.T.
Reeks Omnibus Ccnpany a t
Waynesville.
The following i s an
excerpt
of a
l e t t e r
written by Marcus to h is fa ther on Firstday morning, 11 mo.
6 1847:
van. Chenoweth the
blacksmith
was married a few days ago. I shal l
finish
H.T.
Reeks Omnibus
in
2
or
3
days.
He
has
engaged
to
build 5
more,
3
of
them to go
to
S t .
Louis.
He wishes me
to
do
the
Ornamenting. I wil l i f
he
wil l pay
up; but
he appears hard
pressed a t present . John
Hadden
only gave him 12
hours to
make
arrangements to pay 600,
which
spoi l s h is arrangements
to
pay
s hand s .
He
also
drew
plans fo r bui ldings,
nade maps for Quaker Meetings in Ohio
and
Indiana,
designed elect ion
posters and
drew advertising pic tures o f plows,
carr iages
and
fumitrure
fo r
va rious bu sine s se s .
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Mote s work included pen
and penci l ,
water
color
and then o i l .
He
developed
l i thography and
did
daguerreotypes
and specialized
in post mortem
photographs
frcm v^ich
he
f requen tly pa in ted por ta is ts . His Lebanon , Ohio studio was in a
small brick building
adjacent
the old Court House on Broadway Street across from
Ihe Golden
Lanb
Inn. Lebanon s municipal
Town
Hll
in 1989 occupies
the s i t e of
the o ld Court House and Mote s b ri ck s tu di o i s gone. At the s tudio , h is f i r s t ,
he
eaught
a
small
group
of
g i r l s .
This
was
in
the
1850s.
Marcus and Rhoda
Mote moved t he i r family
fran Waynesville to Richmond, Indiana
Deceniber 26 , 1866. They transferred the i r Quaker meeting c e rt if ic a te s t o
Whitewater
Friends
Meeting.
At
Richmond Mote
opened
an
Accademy
of
Design and
continued paint ing por t r a i t s .
Mote s
techniques began
to
diminish frcm his paintings
along
with
h is
touch
af te r
his
move
to
Richmond. His students
often
assisted with h is l a t e r
paint ings
leaving l i t t l e of
his
own t al e nt v i si bl e.
Mote reopened his
Lebanon, Ohio
studio in May 1868. During h is time in Warren
County
he
painted a t Waynesville, Lebanon, Springboro, Cincinnati , Miamisburg
and
Richmond Indiana. He painted fran 1837 unt i l
circa
1892. He painted
hundreds
of
works including floral and f ru i t s t i l l l i fe ,
landscapes.
Biblical
scenes and
large
Panoramas . His
mos prolific
period
seemed to
be frcm
1859
t 1867 .
He borrowed frcm such s ub je cts a s Paradise Lost for h is la rge
panoramas vhich
were executed from th e
mid
to l a t e 1850s.
The panoramas
wer e a lwas y fea tured a t
Wayensville
a t
the
vi l lage Opera House. They were also diown
in
LEbanon a t
the
Town
Hal l and c i t y churches.
Mote was formally uneducated in fine a r t and had no lengthy
studies
or orservations
of t he r a r t i s t s s ince i t ine r an t a r t i s t s
d idn t
s top
a t Quaker hones.
Quakers
discouraged fine art since twas
considered
too worldly
and
a mischief . In
h is youth. Mote worked with colors made from clay, charred wood natural
materials frcm the
nearby woods
and bluing frcm h is mother s washtubs.
He also
made h is own bruches
frcm
ha i r frcm a squ i r r e l s t a i l .
He did give
brief instruction to
the
nationally recognized
Quaker artist/sculptor,
Eli
Hairvey. As a young man
Harvey
attended
one
of
Mote s lecture seminars a t
Wilmington,
Ohio.
Harvey was
one of
very few
of Mote s
students vho became
profess ional a r t i s t s .
Mote s family,
especially
his Quaker
mother,
discourgaged
and ignored his talents
but
th is
didn *t ^ e l c h his deep
passion
and
desire
to
paint . His
mother once
remarked: I
do believe
th is mischief was bom in
thee . Years
l a te r she
told
Rhoda Steddcm jus before her marriage to Marcus: Marcus will smear and mark thy
windows
continually
with
pictures, but thou
must
bear i t , with
no
harshness. That
i s
a par t of h is
l i fe .
As
he
became
more popular and
made
money
even
the
most
staid
and
steadfast
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Quakers
sa t
for
the i r
port ra i t s
Quaker
subjects
sure ea si ly iden t if ied
by
the plain,
unadorned style
of dress that v/as popular wi th them unt i l af te r
the Civil
War
The Quaker plain gray, brown black and vhite held with
elderly Friends unt i l 1876
or
af ter
Quakers eventaully
adopted the Victorian
modes o f d re ss b ut without jewelry
o r
luscurious
ornament.
Mbte painted
the
loca l gentry
as
well as some famous Warren County, Ohio
vi s i to r s
' In November, 1843, he painted two port ra i t s of United States
President ,
John Quincy Adams
a t
the Golden Lamb Inn. Adams
sa t
for
the
port ra i t s
\rfiile
visi t ing
Lebanon v^en he
came west to
dedicate
The
Cincinnat i Observatory for Ormsby Mitchel November 5,
1843.
Mote's early
works
were always signed M. Mote Artist . These are
h is
best
works,
according
to
authorises .
Hiey were unaffected by
his
distraction
brought
on
by
teaching
. ^
One of the catalogue of
his paintings
in
Warren
County Historiccil Society
Museum in
Lebanon, Ohio
i s narked: Lydia A.
McGindley's
brother-
Waynesville- 35.50 .
Another dated 1863
simply
s ta tes to check vho
he
painted in
Lebanon-write Masonic Lodge:. Mote
did several port ra it s of
Ohio
Governor, Thcmas Corwin. He
also
painted a neighor's cow in carparison.
He was
often
only paid
iron 8.00
to 15.00
per
part ing.
Mate's portraits are f lat in s^jpearance. Probably due to the
lack
of
professiona
training. He also had a photography business in LdDanon p rior to
his
move to
Richmond,
Indiana
and
this
could account
for
some
o f the fla tness
since
he
may
have
worked frcm
photographs in seme instances.
Mote's landscapes cu:e somber and scmevhat dreary. They
reflect
a primitive
sort
of technique coupled with Quaker
simplicity.
His early assistants a t
the
Academy
in Richmond, Ind.
were
always wcmen. And he didn' t always get
along with these
assistants ^o often provided the balance of finishing
work in his
later
pcdinting
His
students were
mostly
young wcmen.
I t
was fashionable
in Waynesville
in
the
1850 period for young wcmen
to
attend sewing schools and
to
take
a rt lessons
where avai lable . I feel th at h is
students
developed a
s tyle
much l ik e h is own.
A painting done on
t in in
a private home
in
Harveysburg, Ohio has definite
Mote characteristics. The painting of a
large
vhit e b ird a t the foot of a water
fa l l was dene by a Hcurveysburg Quaker woman , the
grandmother, of
Grace Smart Fros
v^o
in
1989
i s
age
91.
Marcus Mote was 5
f ee t
2
inches
t a l l
with
l i gh t
brown ha i r
He was
clean shaven
with b lue
eyes
and a ruddy headthy catplexion and an eternally youthful look .
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K. Cur ren t
O h i o an a Room
G en eal o g y Ver t i ca l F i l e
MOTE Pa ge
Marcus
M o t e s
a n c e s t o r s
or ig ina ted
in
I re la nd In t he
1 8 t h c en tu ry , th ey
moved
to England.
Da vid
Mote, Marcus
fa ther
wa s
th e
son
o f
Jeremiah
Mote
b om
1769) a nd G e or gi a May B u t l e r , daughter of W il li am a nd Ann B u t l e r , v^o
set t led
in
Miami County, Cftiio
in 1802
having moved from Vi rgi ni a. Jeremiah
wa s th e son of D av id an d E)orcas Nichols
Mote
vho
were
a ls o e ar ly
se t t l e rs in
Miami C ou nty , O hio . David wa s
th e son
o f J ca ia th an a n d Sarah Mote of n e a r
London, England. Jc^iathan
and
Sarah emigrated
to
Chester County,
Pennsylvania
and t hen to. Dinwiddie
County V i r g i n i a pr io r to 1733.
Marcus Mote
d ie d
February
26,
1898 a t Richmond, I ndi ana. H is gr eat - gr anddaught e
M rs. Lena l o m s now
d e c e a se d , wa s
the l a s t o f h is d i r e c t l i ne
to
l i ve
in
War r en C o u n t y ,
C h i o .
R e se ar ch ed a n d W r i t t e n
By
D en nis E
D al to n
Cotmunity
His tor i an
Mary
L .
Code P u b li c L i b ra r y
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f r o m
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n o t e b o o k
Marcus Mote
O h i o s
famous Quaker p a i n t e r l i v e d
a t
t h e
home
o f h i s
f a t h e r - i n - l a w Samuel S t e d d o n
a c r o s s
from
a a
s h o r t
d i s t a n c e
down
t h e
r o a d
from
T u r t l e c r e e k
F r i e n d s Meeting
House.
Marcus was b o r n i n
I8I7 and worked much of h i s p ain tin g c ar ee r i n Waynesville
where he
was once involved i n
p a i n t i n g
aai ia omn ibusse s.
The Mote durname
has
been t r a c e d back t o England. H i s t o r i c a l r e c o r d s
show
t h a t
Thom de
l a
Mote was a ta x
payer
i n
Essex
England
i n
132?
under
t h e
r u l e o f
King
Edward I I I .
The name
o r i g i n a t e d
i n
France
Mott
M otte and Mote from
De
La Motte
a
town
o f
C o t e s
du Nord
F r a n c e .
Marcus was o f
one
of the t h r e e l i n e s t h a t
s e tt l e d i n
Maryland. There
w e r e t h r e e Mote b r o t h e r s J o n a t h a n J o h n a n d W i l l i a m who s a i l e d f r o m
Newgate England on t h e s h i p
P a t a p s c o e March I 7
i? a I728 and
a r r i v e d
i n
Maryland.
There
were 96 persons aboard.
Jonathan
Mote t h e n s e t t l e d i n
C h e s t e r
County P e n n s y l v a n i a . John
Mote
s e t t l e d
i n
Nort he rn Geo rg ia . Will iam d i e d o f
smal lpox
w h i l e
i n
s e r v i c e
t o
t h e
c o l o n i a l American
Army. Will iam
was u n m a r r i e d .
J o n a t h a n l a t e r moved t o G e o r g i a . He l a t e r moved t o Iowa
and
t h e n
moved
t o
Ohio
i n
1810 s e t t l i n g
on I60
a c r e s o f
land
which he farmed
until
I 8 6 0
a n d
t h e n r e t u r n e d
t o Iowa w h e r e h e
l i v e d o u t
h i s
lif
o n a
600 a c r e farm
and
d i e d
t h e r e
i n
1873
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r e c o r d s a s Jonathan
Mote
J r . born 1790 and died I876 . He
was
twice
m a r r i e d . His first w i f e was Susanna K e s s l e r and t h e y had
10 o r
11
c h i l d r e n .
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second wife
was
Cather ine Bowman and they had 3
o r
^
c h i l d r e n .
J o n a t h a n
a n d
M a r c u s
w e r e c o u s i n s .
t i s b e l i e v e d t h a t Jonathan was a member o f
Miami Monthly
Meeting
o f
The
Religious
S o c i e t y
o f
Friends
a t
Waynesvi l le .
NOT iVIrs
Leonard Bailey
107^5 N S
Troy-Sidney Road Piqua Ohio
^5356
and Mrs.
Loren
Todd R.R. 5f Union
City Indiana-are
descendan
of J o n a t h a n
M o t e .
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the Pee Dee as the waters w southward between Montgomery
and Stanly counties. The larger
mountains
of th e range are
Shepherd, Carraway,
Back ( reek
and
Dave s, a nd ca n b e re ac he d
in
a
brie f drive from
OreenstxTo.
Geologists
recognize t he Uwharries
as one
of the
oldest
mountain ranges
in America,
advanci ng two theor ie s;
l.st, as of
th e
Ocoees, thought to be of
the
pre-Cambrian poriod, or 500
million year.s
ago
in geological
time;
2nd, of
th e early Paleozoic
Era which
reduces their
age by a hundred
million
years.
The meaning
of
the name
is
obscure.
It
may
I c
of
Indian
origin,
or it may bo Welsh.
The Uwh arrie Wildlife
I^Ianagement
area covej-s 1 1,000
acres
of National Forest
land
in
Montgomery
and Stanly counties,
and is administered cuoperativelv by the
Nor th Garol in a
Wild
life Resources Commi.sslon.
This is
the vicinity
of
North
(birolina from
whence
came
the
e ar ly f am il ie s
of
this vicinitv,
the
Mast, Hoover, Waggoner,
Mendenhall,
Fouts,
Waymire,
Shee ts , Qu il lan, ( ob le .
Some of th e Hoove r fami ly not ed
in their
writings
that
they
were b orn nea r Shepher d
Mountain.
When
the
party
started on
Sept.
10 ,
1801, it was
composed
of
sixty-four
persons, al l
related
by
marriage. They
chose the
r ou te o ve r the Blue Ridge mount ai ns ,
thence
t o Abing ton, Gum-
bcrland
Gap, Crab Orchard
and
Lexington,
crossing
the
Ohio
River
a t
Cincinnati,
thence
to Dayton
and
on north to the vicinity
of
th e p resen t town o f
Union, wltere most
of them
located on both
sides of
the
r iver , and
a few c om in g on nor th into what Is
now
Union Town.ship.
TIic
Stil lwater R iver w as then known as tlie
west
brand , of th e Li tt le Miami. The family names of t hi s g roup
were
Hoover,
Fonts , Yount ,
Waymire,
Coble. Mast,
Davis,
.Mote,
Jones, Parry,
Pearson.
Newman,
.Meinlenhall, Sink.-,
Plummer,
Davenport , Waggoner ,
(Juillan.
They
eamped
a t Ridgc\
ille
over
th e w in ter and a rr iv ed in this vicinity March 20, 1802. David
Hoover , S r. and
Dav id Mas t,
had
made the land entr ies fo r
tlie
group
a t Cincinnati
on
the way north. These people composed
the
early membership
of Rocky Sp rin gs, Mill
Creek
and
West
Branch Quaker
Meetings.
SE ON
GROUP
The second group
to leave
North
Carolina
was composed
of
Hutchins,
Cox,
Curt is , Swallow,
Bceson,
Watkins , S taley , Gregg,
Davis,
Johnson
and others. They .started f rom Rockfor d, North
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end
taught
twoteras
ofschool in
Minmi ('.
Hi lUna:
tins
lam
Im
riace where
he now resides, in ; lie
lia.-
H H arrt-s lau
I liildings f-reci.-d Uktcou.
bemarried Miss Catherine, a daughter
(f
.Jiwoh LnriiH. wl... ua
KmtAomery Co.
To
the
union
of
Mr. and
Mrs, Morse ,s vinldi
flJeen,
til.
Aldeba.
Marv.
Clara.
Alice. Minerva
and
Unn, Nl;
M
I men,
having
begun
life
emptv-handcd, but l>y
iiKl'.sirv
a
4
meaiieroeQt,
oonpled
with
fmgality.
he ha.s aeconiplishe
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DNIOH T0W2B1P
ADt w tar and
decaying timber
;
be being
the only doctor inUhm Mte, Ml
waa
much
Uken
np in adminiBtering
to
tfae
aicfc
and
affiicted; beeeeS laiap
expenence
in that dav; there
was
agreater
mortaittr
in hia after iS
tied in life, fVom pulmonary dweaae. Jereeiiah a
had marr ied
aad
aetti
aocouDted
a good
norae
among
the sick, and
moreofa
ready
vrltar
tfaimonll.
in that
early
day. hewaa
Clerk
or
Secretary
of the Meoik' Mwlllli Neal>
at
Weat
ilraarh in ita
flrat
ornnization, and theold
dNieek
aatrnMe
Ma
to hia
.
Ma
wife
waa Mary Botler,
a
native
of
DurbaaaWra,
Bi^aad ;
tbay
the feHnwtag
cbtMren
born to
them, William,
Darid. A*im, Aoa
and
c*a ve
of the IM
>)f
fioerfruits andfiowen,with him,
f4>peArs
to beinpglato
tnf Ui M and practiced medicine
when
vounger to hto Ittto
to
ha* r>ame. butoflater years be declines foU^ng
this
ommm
in
women
and children. Marcus
Motte,
toird mw
cf
of note, also paints in superior style fimits
t'
iJMdk
vupotlos was innate in him, having followed
fk
Sf.ily
-aUwv
acted for longevity, also for tiw^t
irait of
aawi arc' k,;
m
ludgment free
of all bias
(rf mind,
by
a'c ? . this large family oonnectioa bes
g tbr
tkis writing; the greater part....
iaas and b wiA^wapd. Some families aze in Batow^
rm..
tor.- >
< few
to
Illinois. Mary
lies intsned to
Rrw I-rMi grandfetfaer David and wife aadi
Jesa' iuhJ daaghters
Mary
and
grawlctitidni'M
nwt ut prMbend rqxw bewiSik
i ti.-
Ki.ri\ Hettleatent
and its
family cMHHfl.
of UiikI Mr :th of Milton to the countyline, and for haVfe
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BiriUKAPHfCAL BKETi'Ht>
west
and oortb
of Ihe village ilrtu. ^ i Uiis i-
|Mrt hm fmmd Mt of theirhaada.
IhsMlifasof Samuel and Francie Joues, frinn Wull
an tbsH f lbt Pattys and
some
othern are
rulaU ii
to tti-
', (Mah tmd Joseph Meodenball. wbu
live^l
near \\> t
)'/ieas^Pli'*a* Mswdeiihau, who w a tbe son of Jamca ^vuiU- h ll Wli wiic
Aaidb,
m the aon of
Jobo McodeubAll. the euii^ismf
Fr^
l/tiirlanji
TUs MiC sM^tement is made to shorten a lon^
back tfaiisifl.dnii or five geneiations of tliis
family
mAssprica Ajo4
lies before me. ruuniug back t thr Id-fh
BttM wiiMPiXicded, at
that
remote period. Mile dc Milo.
iaos*JSOSMtly MUdieahaU.
Some
branebes
of
the
faiuiis
)n
IMMd-ltQiis.af neUing up to the present time; but tin ^py^rVpsii
it The f^ilj resilience
in
Great
liritain
Wis A Wiitsht T^'
town aiKl^klbti^ where tbev liveiJ. took the family uanir
TbOSS-.tlSO bcothera, Caieb and Joseph, married sistA-r-^^UaarvCvia
QardlWi)*
-Hw
MMMleahaiiaemigratcHl to Pennsylvania fi& .sam^
tiusJNnaiWeBto
Amstioa. and
were residents ofChi-HterOft
rt l-y
th e
albcwMMd bsothsra, went south, where bis wife ami part \
bytbs^idiiflMiBGsQrgia, during one of the wars with the iisiness < > w .
th e
finer f^uita,
and
brought with him from
North
Carolina h.>w
ap(^e
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MARCUS MOTE
MARY L .
COOK
PUBLIC
LIBRARY
Ohioana Room
Genea logy Verticil File
MOTE
Marcus Mote , son o f
David
and Mir iam Mendena l l Mote , was born
June 19 , 1817 near West Mil ton ,
Ohio.
His paren t s were members
of
West B ra nc h Month ly Meet ing of The
R elig io us S oc ie ty of Fr i ends
(Quakers ) .
Marcus
was
a
f i f t h
gene ra t i on
b i r t h r i g h t
American
Quaker .
H is Mote anc e s t o r s
o r i g i n a t e d
i n I r e l a nd and in
th e
18 th
c e n t u r y moved to
Eng l a nd .
Dav id Mote
was
t h e
son
o f J e rem ia h Mote
b . 1769)
and
Georg ia
May
Bu t l e r daughte r
o f Will iam
and
Ann
But l e r ,
J .
and
par first
s e t t l e r s in Miami County Ohio
in
1802 moving
t h e r e
f rom
V i r g i n i a . J e r em i ah was
t h e
so n o f
Dav i d
and Do r c a s
N i c h o l
Mote who
were th e
first settlers in
Miami
C oun ty , O hio . David
was
t h e
son
o f
J o n a t h a n
and
Sa r a h Mote o f n e a r London , Eng l and .
J o n a t h a n
and Sa rah
moved to
Che s t e r
Coun ty ,
Penn sy lv an i a
and th en to Dinw idd i e
County
Vi r g i n i a wher e
Dav id was bo r n
i n 1733 .
Marcus t augh t a t Tu r t l e Creek
Schoo l
in
Warren Coun ty ,
Ohio
1836-37
and a t t e n d e d
qu a r t e r l y
Mee t i n g at Wa y ne sv il le b e in g
c l e r k
at one
t ime which
l e ad to
a
p r o t e s t
o f
h i s
art
work
and
n ea r l y
go t h im
d isowned
by th e Meet ing . Rhoda
Steddom, a l s o
a fifth gn e r a l t i o n
American Quaker , was a pup i l a t Tur t l e
Creek
Schoo l . Marcus
mar r ied
h e r November
11 , 1837
and
they moved
to West
Mil ton where t h e r e
s on s
K irk L inu s
and
Samue l
Steddom were
bo r n .
They r e t u r n ed
to War r en
County
where Henry ,
J e nn i s and
tw o
bab i e s
who d i ed in in fan cy were
born
Marcus
planned
to use
an unf in i shed room
in
h is home
on
Tur t l e
Cr e e k f o r
a s t u d i o b u t s i n c e mos t o f
his wo r k - c e n t e r e d
at
Leba non
ins tead
he
painted
there working
in
neighboring v i l l a g e s . He
a lso
found it difficult
to
c o l l e c t d eb t s and he t u r n ed to
o t h e r
work to
make
a
l i v i ng .
He
decora ted stagecoaches
fo r
the
H.T. Reeks
Omnibus
Company at W ayne s v i l le :
Fol lowing
i s an exce rp t
of
a l e t t e r
wri t t en
by
Marcus
to h is f a the r
F i r s tday
morning
11th mo.
6 1847
Wm. Chenoweth th e
b l a ck smi th
was mar r i e d a few days
ago. I
sh all f in ish
H.T. Reeks
Omnibus
in 2 or 3
days
He
has
engaged
to bui ld
5 more, 3
or them to
go to St. Louis. He
wishe
me to do the Ornamenting. I
wil l
i f
he
wil l pay up; but he
appears
hard pressed
a t
presen t .
John Hadden only gave
him
12
hours
to make arrangements to pay
600,
which spo ils h is
ar rangemen t s
to
pay h is hands .
He
a lso
drew
plans for
bu i l d i ngs ,
made maps
fo r
Quaker
Meet ings
in
Ohio and Ind i ana ,
des igned
e l e c t i on pos t e r s and drew adve r t i s i ng
pic tures of plows,
carr iages and furni ture for various
businesses .
His
work included
pen
and
penc i l , water
co lo r
and then o i l . He
developed
l i thography
and
did daguerreotypes
and
specia l ized in
post mortem
photographs
from which
he
frequently painted
port ra i t s .
opened
a studio in Lebanon f i r s t in a
small
brick
bui ld ing adjacent the old Court
House on Broadway now
s i te
of
Town Hall ) where he taught
to
a smal l group of
g i r l s .
Marcus and Rhoda Mote
moved from Wayn esv il le to Richmond,
I nd i ana
December
26, 1866 where
they reaues ted ce r t i f i c a t e s fo r them and
children
from
Whitewater
Friends
Meeting.
Marcus
opened
an Accadem
of des ign and cont inued
pa in t ing po r t r a i t s .
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Mote s
t e chn ique s
began
to
d imin i sh
from
h is p ain tin gs a long wi th
h i s t o u ch fter h i s move
due t o
t e a c h i n g . H is
s t u d e n t s
ssisted
with h is
l a t e r
pa i n t i ng s
and
t h i s left
little of h is
own t a l e n t
visi le
Mote
r eopened
h i s
Lebanon,
Ohio
s tu d io in May
1868 . Dur ing
h i s
t ime in Warren County he p a i n t e d a t Wayne sv i l l e ,
LEbanon ,
Sp r ingbo ro ,
C in c i n c i n n a t i ,
Miam i s bu r g ,
and
R i chmond , I n d i a n a . He
p a i n t e d
from 1837 un t i l
c i r c a
1892 .
Pa in t ed
hundreds o f p a i n t i n g s , i n c l ud i ng
f l o r a l and fruit still life and l a nd s c ape s and B i b l i c a l s c ene s and
l a rge
Panoramas . He seemed to
be p ro l i f i c
from 1859
to
1867.
Mote was u n t r a n i e d
and
h ad no
o b s e r v a t i o n
o f o t h e r rtists
s i n c e
i t i n e r an t a r t i s t s d i d n t s top
a t
Quaker
homes.
Quakers discourgaged
f i ne a r t
s ince
i s
was cons ide red
too
wor ld ly and
a
m i sch i e f .
Mote worked
with
c lo ro s from
c l ay ,
cha r r red wood,
na tu r a l mate r i a l s
from
the
nearby
woods
and bluing from h is mother s washtubs . He
made h is own b ru shes from ha i r from
a
s q u a i r r e l s t il
His
family, especial ly
h is Quaker mother,
discouraged
and ignored
h is t a l e n t s bu t
he
had a deep pass i on and
de s i r e
to pa i n t . His
mother
once sa id : I do bel ieve
th i s mischief
was
born in thee .
Years l a t e r she remarked
to
Rhoda
Steddom j u s t
be fo re he r mar r i ag e
to
Marcus: Marcus
wi l l smear
and mark thy windows
con t i nua l l y
with
pictures ,
but thou must
bear i t , with no
harshness. That i s
a pa r t of
h is
l i f e .
As
he
became more popular and made money, even the most s t a id ,
s t e a d f a s t Quaker s a t fo r t h e i r po r t r a i t s .
Marcus
was
5 '
2
t a l l
with
l i gh t
brown
ha i r ,
c lean
shaven,
blue
eyes, ruddy healthy complexion and an
eternal ly
youthful look.
His
early
works were
always
signed M.Mote Art is t . These
are
his
best works, according to author i t ies , before he was distracted by
t e a ch ing .
One of
the catlogue
of
his
pain tin gs in Warren County
Histor ical
Society
Museum
is marked :
Lydia
A
McGindley's
brother-
Waynes vi 11e-
5
. 50 . Another dated 1863 simply states to check
who he painted in
Lebanon-write
Masonic Lodge .
He did several
portaits
of Governor Thomas Corwin.
He also painted
a neighbors
cow . He was
of ten
only paid from 8.00
to 15.00
for a pa in t ing .
Marcus Mote d ie d F eb ru ary
26,
1898 a t Richmond, Indiana .