The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-08
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Tuesday Morning, April 8. 1873.

1uaSuay morning, april D, 1873.
DEATH OF a DISTINGUISHED souTH-
HRNRR.-Dr. Josiah O. Mott. born and
bred in South Carolina, but for half of
his long life resident of Mobile, Ala,
where he recently returned to die. Was
one OF the representative men of our
section. He has left behind him
name. like Commodore Maury's. which
the South, his mother, should not will.
ingly let die, both as man of science,
physiological and q physician. The.e
was something touching in the worn out
old war-horse's returning to his original
pastures to die; aud the prescience with
which he foresaw and foretold his own
approaching end. was proof Of his un.
erring diagnosis in the diseases of the
Thousands VINO mad found aiie7iatio1 OF
cure Of their suffetinga through his prac.
tical skill. Identified years ngo with
seekers after truth. like E. Geo. squier,
OF New York. and the Egyptian Glidden,
who united with him in his great work
on the di iversity Of species, which gave
them all high place among scientific
inquirers, throughout his long life DR.:
Mott pursued the same paths of research.
and his labors ended only with his life.
But the loving hands Of near neighbors.
who knew and loved him well, have
strewn over his tomb q ohaplet OF i'm
saorteAes. from which we Gull few, to be
found in long. eloquent and apprecia-
tive notice of the man and the philoso-
pher in the Mobile Register. Business
was generally suspended the day he was
buried, and an immense procession
military and fire companies participating
escorted the dead physician to his last
resting place. Here is the Registers
record OF his life and services:
DooToR' JOSIAH O. NoTr.-An event
which our people have been sadly nwait.
ing WAS announced at an early hour, yes
man, DR.. Mott, had expired at '7.3O
O'Clock, on the morning Of his birth day,
thus completely rounding out the mea-
sure of his years, which had nearly at
tained the traditional limit Of human
life. For more than half that time Mo-
bile has claimed him as her own; even
when he had become resident of other
oities,f there was an instinctive feeling
among us that this was his home; that he
would yet return to us. He returned to
die; the attachment to this home spot
was strong in his bosom, and while some
atrength;.remniped which might suffice
for the. fatigue of travel, she surned his
face Southwark; and he seemed to have
estimated the sum OF his vital powers
with philosophical cslnness; for once at
home, he lay down, fesigned to his fate,
and viewing its approach with almost
more than human presdienoe.
No man was more thoroughly identi-
fed with the people among whom he
lived in all their varied interests. social,
municipal and political. And while al
ways most affable and sympathetic. was
invariably outspokep. In politics, he
was not only true to the South, but
the cause which he espoused. o. course,
the WEE opened for him an active field,
into which he threw himself with oil the
energy OF his nature. From the hrst,
he entered the service OF the Confederate
States, filing the position of Medical
Director, under Gen. Bragg. Finding,
after the wnr, that the summer climate
of Mobile was too exhausting for his
impaired. contribution, he, removed in
1857 to Baltimore. His departure hence
was looked upon as public calamity,
and the universal regard and admiration
of the people was testified by public
dinner given him, and attended by more
than 100 of our principal citizens. After
remaining in Baltimore year, he re.
moved to New York, and wins received
with open arms by the most eminent of
the profession in that city. A large
practice sought him at once, and he was
adding daily to his reputation as dis
tinguished gynm,plogist. when, about
year since, his health suddenly failed
him; and when the assaults of the en-
oroaohing foe had exhausted all the
means of defence which his lifelong ex-
perience could supply, he calmly turned
to the cherished abode where 80 much of
that experience had been acquired, that
his last days might be passed among Ills
oldest and truest friends.
It is not by my means complimentary
to the manly character that no women
waro rocoua5 from fho tlop};o Gpnh