Scott, Gustavus – Scott, Rufus Leonard
Scott, Gustavus
lawyer, congressman, was born in Prince William county, Va. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1784 to 1785. He died in 1801 in Washington, D. C.
Scott, Gustavus Hall
naval officer, was born June 13, 1812, in Fairfax county, Va. He served in the civil war with distinction, attaining the rank of rearadmiral, United States navy. He died March 23, 1882, in Washington, D. C.
Scott, Harvey D
Congressman, was born in Ohio. He removed to Indiana; and was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-fourth congress.
Scott, Harvey W
journalist, was born Feb. 1, 1838, near Peoria, Ill. He received the rudiments of his education in various schools in Oregon, and graduated from the Pacific university. In 1864 he moved to Portland, Ore., intending to follow the profession of law, but took up writing for the press. Since 1865 he has been the editor of The Oregonian, the leading daily newspaper of that state. To this publication he has since devoted his attention. He is a clear and forcible writer, and a man of executive ability and untiring energy.
Scott, Henry Lee
soldier, author, was born in 1814 in North Carolina. He was an army officer who served in the Mexican and civil wars, and was the author of A Military Dictionary. He died in 1886.
Scott, Hugh Reid
lawyer, banker, state senator, was born in 1855 in Rockingham county, N. C. In 1878 he was prosecuting attorney of his native county, and during 1881-84 was a member of the state senate of the North Carolina legislature. In 1885 he organized the Reidsville bank, and has ever since been its president.
Scott, Irving Murray
mechanical engineer, was born Dec. 25, 1837, in Hebron Mills, Md. He has invented numerous appliances connected with engines; and also in mining machinery. He has been president of the Mechanics' institute and of the Art institute of San Francisco, Cal.
He is at the head of the Union Iron works, and built the battleship Oregon.
Scott, James
lawyer, jurist. In 1813 he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Indiana.
Scott, James
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1806 in Scotland. He was pastor at German Valley and Newark, N.
J. He published a dissertation on the genius of Robert Pollok in his Life, and before his death completed a narrative poem called The Guardian Angel. He died in 1857 in Newark, N. J.
Scott, James W
journalist, was born June 26, 1849, in Walworth county.
He is the editor and owner of the Chicago Evening Post.
Scott, Jeanne Mcclain
editor, author, was born Aug. 12, 1849, in Carthageon-the-Cumberland, Tenn. She attended the Sacred Heart college of New Orleans, and in 1863 graduated from the Huntsville college, Alabama. She is the editor of the Arkansas Traveler, and a contributor to eastern and southern magazines. She is a successful syndicate writer and the author of four books.
Scott, John
congressman, was born in 1782 in Hanover county, Va. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Missouri from 1816 to 1821; and was a representative in congress from Missouri from 1821 to 1827. He died in 1861 in St.
Genevieve, Mo.
Scott, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Huntingdon county, Penn., from 1829 to 1831.
Scott, John
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 27, 1820, in Washington county, Pa. He is a methodist protestant clergyman of Cincinnati; and the author of Pulpit Echoes; and The Land of Sojourn.
Scott, John
lawyer, state senator, United States senator, was born July 14, 1824, in Alexandria, Pa. He was a prosecuting attorney from 1846 to 1849; was for ten years solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad company; and in 1862 was elected to the state legislature. He was elected a senator in congress from Pennsylvania for the term commencing in 1869 and ending in 1875. He died March 22, 1889, in Pittsburg, Pa.
Scott, John G
manufacturer, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-eighth congress to fill a vacancy.
Scott, John M
clergyman, educator, poet, was born in 1855 in Westmoreland county, Pa. He is a successful educator and baptist clergyman of Sewickly, Pa.; and the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Scott, John Morin
congressman, was born in 1730 in New York. He was secretary of the state of New York in 1778 and 1779; and was a delegate from New York to the continental congress from 1780 to 1783. He died Sept. 14, 1784, in New York.
Scott, John Morin
soldier, lawyer, was born Oct. 25, 1789, in New York city.
He was for many years a member of the Philadelphia city councils, a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1837, and in 1841-44 served as mayor.
Scott, John T
jurist, was born May 6, 1831, in Glasgow, Ky. He removed to Terre Haute, Ind.; and in 1868 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas, and was again elected to the judgeship in 1872.
Scott, John W
educator, clergyman, was born Jan. 22, 1800, in Beaver county, Pa. He graduated from the university of Pennsylvania; taught school for a number of years; and during 1824-81 he filled the chair of natural science and mathematics in various institutions. In 1830 he was ordained a clergyman in the presbyterian church; and during the Harrison administration h e he was a member of the president's family at the White house. His son, John Neal Scott, is a noted lawyer of Port Townsend, Wash.; and his daughter is the wife of ex-President Benjamin Harrison.
Scott, Julian
artist, was born Feb. 14, 1846, in Johnson, Vt. Among his works, mostly pictures of army life, are Rear-Guard at White Oak Swamp, owned by the Union League club; Battle of Cedar Creek, in the state-house at Montpelier, Vt.; Battle of Golding's Farm; The Recall; On Board the Hartford; and Old Records.
Scott, Lawrence W
journalist, clergyman, author, poet, was born May 29, 1846, in Monongalia county, Vt. In his youth he learned the printer's trade in Texas, and was local editor of the Daily Leader of Covington, Ky. In 1866 he entered the ministry, and became somewhat distinguished as a theological disputant.
In 1872 he returned to Texas, where he published the Olive Branch, which was afterward consolidated with the Southern Christian Weekly. He is the author of Paradox, and Other Poems, and several prose works.
Scott, Orange
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 13, 1800, in Brookfield, Vt.
Besides many contributions to the press, he was the author of An Appeal to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died July 31, 1847, in Newark, N. J.
Scott, Owen
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born July 6, 1848, near Effingham, Ill. He was elected superintendent of schools for Effingham county, Ill., and served in that capacity eight years; was admitted to the bar by the Illinois supreme court in 1874, and practiced law for ten years, leaving this to engage in newspaper work. He published the Effingham Democrat, leaving it to become proprietor and manager of the Bloomington Daily and Weekly Bulletin; and also publishes monthly the Illinois Freemason. He was elected city attorney and mayor of Effingham; was deputy collector of internal revenue; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Scott, Robert Kingston
soldier, physician, governor, was born July 8, 1826, in Armstrong county, Pa. He was in Sherman's operations before Atlanta, and in the march to the sea. He was assistant commissary from 1865 to 1868; and was governor of South Carolina from 1868 to 1871.
Scott, Robert Nicholson
soldier, author, was born Jan. 21, 1838, in Winchester county, Tenn. He was an army officer, in charge of the publication of war records at Washington in 1877-87, who published a Digest of the Military Laws of the United States. He died March 5, 1887, in Washington, D. C.
Scott, Rufus Leonard
lawyer, was born March 31, 1835, in Lanesborough, Mass. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar, and has since continued the practice of law in the city of New York, residing in Brooklyn. In 1877 he was elected registrar of arrears for the city of Brooklyn; and he was instrumental in having the plan of advertising the tax sales in pamphlet form for distribution, with a reference notice in the daily papers, instead of advertising in detail through the press; and this measure subsequently became a law. He has been a member of the board of aldermen; a member of the board of education; was a leader in securing rapid transit for the city; one of the promoters and founders of the Bushwick and East Brooklyn dispensary; and also one of the founders of the Bushwick Savings bank.
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