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Rh "The Effect of Tuberculin on the Milk of Cows " (1894); "The Chemical Composition of the Tuber- culosis and Glanders Bacilli " (1895) ; •' A Hygienic Studv of Oleomargarine" (1896); and "The War with 'the Microbes" (1897).

SCOTT, Frederick George, Canadian poet, b. in Montreal. 7 April. 1861. lie wa.s educated at Bishop's college, Lennoxville. and in theology at King's college, London, and was for two years at St. John the Evangelist's church. Jlontreal. He then went to England, and was ordained priest in Rom- ford parish church, was appointed curate of the Church of St. Peter, advincular, Coggeshall, Esse., and remained there one year. la 1887 returned to Canada, and was appointed to the rectory of Drummondville. In September, 1806. he became curate of St. Matthew's. Quebec. In January. 1897. he was awarded the Sanford gold medal of the Royal Canadian humane society, for heroic con- duct in saving a man from drowning. The presen- tation was m»Ie in the legislative council chamber at Quebec, in the presence of a large audience, by Sir I. A. Chapleau. lieutenant-governor of the prov- ince. Mr. Scott's published volumes are "The Soul's Quest " (1888) ; " Elton Hazlcwoo*! " (1892) ; "My Lattice, and other Poems " (1894) : and "The Unnamed Lake, and other Poems" (1897).

SCOTT, John Witherspoon, educator, b. in Hookstown. Beaver co.. Pa., 2'J Jan., 1800; d. in Washington, I). ('., 29 Nov., 1892. His father was a Presbyterian clergyman, who gave his son the advantages of a good education. Young Scott was graduated from Wa.shington university, con- tinued his studies at Yule, and received private tuition in theology. He became professor of mathematics and natural sciences at his alma mater in 182.5, was there four years, and then filled a like chair for seventeen years in Miami univer- sity. He founded Belmont college, near Cincin- nati, and Oxford female college, in Ohio, being president of the latter for a de<-ade. Dr. Scott was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1830, and, although busied with e<lucational relations, preached regularly. It wa-s during his connection with Miami that Benjamin Harrison, then a stu- dent there, be<',ame acquainted with Caroline .Scott, who became his wife. Dr. Sc-ott was later a pro- fes.sor at Hanover college, and uf)on his retirement from collegiate connections engaged in private tuition and preaching until 1881. He then held a Pwt in the pension office at Wa.shington until resident Harrison's inauguration, when ho re- tired anil resided in the White House.

'''SCOTT. Robert Eden''', lawyer, b. in Fauquier county. Va., 22 April, 1808; d. near .Salem, Va.. 3 May. 1862. He was a student at the University of Virginia, and was admitted to the bar at Warren- town. He was elected commonwealth's attorney, and for many consecutive years represented his county in the state legislature. In 1850 he was a member of the Virginia state constitutional con- vention, and in 1861 of the secession convention. He wiis a vehement advocate of the Union up to the time that Virginia seceded. He was a mem- ber of the provisional congress of the Confederate states in .July, 1861, and in .September of that year a candidate for the Confederate states, con- fress. He was killed by a marauding party of '. S. deserters, whose (lepredatinns he wa.s en- deavoring to prevent. — His brother, John, soldier, b. in Fauquier county. Va., 23 April, 1820. He was educated at Warrentown. studied law for two years with his father. Judge John Scott, graduated from the law department of the Uni- versity of Virginia, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. In 1850-'l he edited the Richmond " Whig," and about 1857-'8 he organized the "Black Horse cavalry" of Fauquier county, and commanded the company at Charlestown when John Brown and others were hung for the Har- per's Ferry episode. In 1861 he went to Mont- gomery, and offered his services to the Confeder- ate states, and was appointed a captain of cavalry. Upon his recruiting a battalion of cavalry he was appointed a major, and later he was promoted to a colonelcy, and was transferred to the trans- Mississippi department. Shortly before his first military commission in the confederacy he pub- lished a nolitical work on "The Lost Principles of the Federal Government, or the Sectional Equi- librium " (Richmond, 1860), in which he attempted to show that the "true nature of the U. S. consti- tution was a compact between the free-soil and the slave sections based on a balance between them of political power and influence." After the war he published " Partisan Life with Slosby " (New York, 1867), and in 1870 he became com- monwealth's attorney for Fauquier county, and served by successive re-elections for many" years. He also published " The Republic as a Form of Government, or the Evolution of Democracy in America" (London, 1890).

SCOTT, William Lawrence, capitalist, b. in Washington, D. C, 2 July, 1828; d. in Erie, Pa., 19 Sept.. 1891. He was the third son of Slajor Robert J. Scott, a graduate of the U. S. military academy in 1815. His father died when he was in his seventh year, but he had the advantage of careful training from his mother, daughter of Judge Lewis, of Hagcrstown, Md. He attended the academy at Hampton, Va., and from 1840-'6 served as page to the U. S. congress. Here he attracted the attention of Gen. C. M. Reed, a member, who induced him to go to Erie in 1847, where he attended school for a short time, and then became a clerk in Gen. Reed's shipping busi- ness. In 18.50 he formed a partnership with M. B. Lowry in the coal business, and in 1851 engaged similarly with the firm of John Ilearn & Co. When Mr. Hearn died the copartnership was changed to W. i. Scott & Co., anil through Mr. Scott's ability this firm became the largest producing and ship- ping coal concern in the world. He had interests in seventy thousand acres of coal land, and his employees numbered nearly twelve thousand. Quite early in life he engaged in the building of railroads, with which he was affiliated till his death, and their development was due largely to his enterprise. He had also large interests in the manufacture of iron and in mining, and owned a farm from which eighty thousand barrels of vege- tables were shipped in a single year. Besides his mining, agricultural, and other interests, he had a prominent connection with banks. He was elected mayor of Erie in 1866 anil 1871. He was nominated by the Democrats for congress in 1866 and 1876. and in 1884 was elected. lie was re-elected in 1886, and declined renominations in 1888 and 1890 because of failing health. He was on con- fidential terms with Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland, who respected his counsels. Mr. Scott was also a delegate to the national Democratic conventions of 1876. 1880. and 1888.

'''SCOTTOW. Joshna''', colonist, b. in England in 1615; d. in Boston, Mass.. 20 Jan., 1698. lie emi- grated to Mas.snchusetts with his family in 1034. became a captain of militia, and was the confiden- tial agent of I^a Tour in his negotiations with the colonial government in 16,54-'7. His daughter, Elizabeth, married Thomas Savage, the ancestor of