Curtis+Crooke

__The Immigration of the Mott's__  My story is based on information given to me by my father's mother. Although the immigrants of my family go very far back, she was able to remember many important facts that I put together into the story of my family's immigration.

My family goes back to Germany before the Revolutionary War between the years 1720-1776. The immigrants had the last name of Mott and came by boat to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They came to America to have a better life, and became prosperous farmers. They were well-educated and were Protestants looking for an economic opportunity. Germany wasn't a country at the time of their immigration.  One of the descendants of the Mott's was either the governor of Pennsylvania or the wife of a governor of Pennsylvania. Other descendants of the immigrants about 50 years later discovered coal on their  farmland, which lead to the start of the Kingston Coal Company. I was quite interested by the way my grandmother found out that her ancestor had started the Kingston Coal Company. She learned about it when her grandmother was given money during the 1940's from the Kingston Coal Company itself.

Kingston Coal Mine- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

As a final piece of information, I learned that after staying in Pennsylvania for many years, my family moved to Pasadena, California. They moved there in the 1920's and most of my family is still living in California.  This was all the information I was able to attain about my family's immigration to America. Before doing this project, I knew nothing about my family's immigration, but now I know a whole story. __Bibliography__ Crooke, Jeanne. Telephone interview. 17 Apr. 2009. Crooke, Jeanne. Telephone interview. 27 Apr. 2009. "Kingston Coal Co, Kingston." Online Image. __Coal Breakers of Wilkes-Barre, PA- Capt'n Clint's Place__. No date. 19 May 2009 . "Pennsylvania: Political Features." Online Image. __Encyclopedia Britannica Student Edition__. 1998. 2 May 2009 . 