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Persoonlijke gegevens Harvey Cleland DeMott 

• Hij is geboren op 17 juli 1838 in Greene Co. IL.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1904, hij was toen 65 jaar oud.
• Een kind van John Lawrence DeMott en Phebe A. Curry
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 11 december 2007.

Gezin van Harvey Cleland DeMott

Hij is getrouwd met Sarah Jeanette Kern.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 26 juli 1864 te Atlanta, IL, hij was toen 26 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. David DeMott  
2. Lawrence DeMott  
3. Clara Louise DeMott  1876-1954 

Notities over Harvey Cleland DeMott

Dr. Harvey C. DeMotte, vice president of Wesleyan University and one of the old and prominent educators of the state of Illinois, died at his home, 901 North Main Street, at 11:30 last night. The demise of Dr. DeMotte was very sudden, and the news of his taking off will come as a shock to the community in which he lived so long and worked so assiduously for the uplifting of the young people who have come under his influence. he had been suffering for some time with an organic heart ailment, which had caused him to temporarily give up his work at the Wesleyan University during the last week. The past few days. however, he had partially recovered, and resumed the hearing of his classes. he was at his usual place in the class room yesterday, and seemed to be much better than he had for a week past. Last evening after he retired the trouble returned and later in the night the members of his family became alarmed over his condition. At about 11 o´clock word was sent for Dr. Gardner, who lives just across the street at the Kelso sanitarium. But death was swift in its work and by the time the doctor had reached the bedside of Dr. DeMotte, it was evident he was past all human aid. The end came a few monents later.
Sketch of His Life
Harvey boyhood was spent upon the farm; his early educational advantages being in no way of a superior character, but naturally fond of books he determined to secure the best education possible. With this purpose he entered school at Metamera IL., in 1856, and soon afterwards found his way to Bloomington. He was graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1861. Having shown special aptitude as a tutor and remarkabe ability as a student in mathematics, he was elected professor of mathematics on the day preceding his graduation. While in college he was chiefly instrumental in the organization of the Belles Lettres Literary Society and was always its friend and helper.
In 1862 Dr. DeMotte enlisted in the army for defense of the union and served as lieutenant in the Sixty-fourth Illinois volunteers, Compangy G. He made a very honorable war record and served until the close of the rebellion, when he resumed his duties as professor of mathematics at the Wesleyan. In 1884 he resigned the professorship to accept the professorship of Chaddock College at Quincy, IL. In this position he had a field for the exercise of his well-known executive abilities, and retained the same until 1887, when he was appointed superintendent of the Soldiers´ Orphans´ Home at Normal IL. In the latter place he found himself quite at home, for his natural endowments and large knowledge of child nature made him more of a father that a master to the hundreds of children under his charge. His superintendency was economical, wise and popular. In the performance of his duties at the home he was ably seconded by Mrs. DeMotte in the position of matron. He resigned the superintendency in 1893, and later engaged in the editorship of the Bloomington Evening Leader for about three years, associated with Hon. Owen Scott, now of Decatur. Not finding the newspaper work congenial to his temperament, he returned to the Wesleyan about 1899, and was until last year prinipal of the preparatory department. Last spring he was elected vice-president of the institution and made professor of mathematics and astronomy, the position to which he was first elected after graduation. Dr. Demotte was always a careful industrious student. In 1877 the degree of Ph. D. in absentia and in 1886 Baker University honored him with a degree of LL. D. Dr. DeMotte has been a life-long and prominent member of the Methodist church. He was a member of the general conference in conferences. His membership was in Grace church of this city and he had the honor of being a charter member and long a trustee and Bible class teacher. Dr. DeMotte was married in 1864 to Miss Sara L. Kern, daughter of the late David Kern, of Atlanta. One child Miss Clara DeMotte, and Mrs. DeMotte survive.
His surviving brothers and sisters are the following: Mrs. L.J. Cottie, Edgar, Neb.: McKendrie DeMotte, Sterling, Neb.; Emory DeMotte, Great Bend, Kas; George W. DeMotte, Emporia, Kas. Dr. DeMotte was a member of Maj. Powell´s exploring expedition along the Grand Canyon in Colorado. In 1874 he was in charge of the topographical survey of the Green river region. He was a charter member of E. O. Haven Council of the Royal Arcanum, the only secret society with which he was identified. He was also a charter member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Personally. Dr. DeMotte was a man of sunny disposition of the kindliest manner and with braod information of many lines. As a scholar, ;he was master in his own department. As a teacher, he was clear, inspiring and sympathetic. As a man, he was universally respected and truly loved by the students who received instruction at his hands. Many a timed youth has received kindness and been inspired with courage by an appropriate spoken word by Dr. DeMotte intimes of the youth´s discouragement and none ever appealed to him for help and sympathy without receiving an answer of wisdom and encouragement.

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