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SCOTT

Del., Oct. 11. 1S02. He was brouf^lit up on a farm, was a carpenter aiul cabinetmaker with limited education, prepared for the ministry, 18*23-26; joined the I'liiladelphia conference of tiie JI.E. church, in April, 1826, and was transferred to the Dover circuit, Delaware, in 1827. He was ordained deacon in 1828; and was pastor of St. George's. Philadeli>liia, 1828-30. He was mar- ried, in 1830, to Sarali H. Smith of Westchester; was ma<le presiding elder of the Delaware dis- trict. 1834-40. principal of Dickinson College gram- mar school. 1840-43; an agent of tiie Methodist Book Concern in New York city, 1848-52; and was elected and ortlained bishop by the gen- eral conference at Boston, Mass., in 1852, and served till 1872. The honorary degree of M.A. was conferred on him by "SVesleyan university in 1840, and that of D.D. by Delaware college in 1846. He died on the farm where he was born, near Odessa, Del.. July 13, 1882.

SCOTT, Nathan Bay, senator, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, Dec. 18, 1842. He at- tended the county schools, engaged in mining in Colorado, 1859-62, and served as a private in the Ohio volunteers, 1862-65. He removed to Wheel- ing, W. Va., and engaged in the manufacture of glass as manager and president of the Central Glass company. He was a member and presi- dent of the city council, 1880-82; a state senator, 1882-90; passed the mutual savings bank law and organized the first savings bank in the state in 1887, of which he was president; a member of the executive committee of the Republican na- tional committee, 1888-1902; commissioner of internal revenue, 1898-99; and was a Republican U.S. senator from West Virginia, 1899-1905, hav- ing been elected after a prolonged contest, Jan. 25. 1899, by one majority, and serving in the sen- ate as chairman of the committee on mines and mining, and as a member of the committees on military affairs, pensions, railroads, public buildings and grounds. He traveled extensively in the United States and in the Old World, wliere he visited the unfrequented regions. He was a generous benefactor, and served as a trustee and director of the Wheeling city hos- pital and of the Altenheim Home for Aged Women.

SCOTT, Orange, founder of the Wesleyan Meth- odist cliurch, was born in Brookfield, Vt., Feb. 13, 1800. He resided with his parents in Canada for six years, and after his return to Vermont attended the common schools, and in 1822 was ordained to the Metliodist ministr}'. He was pre.^iding elder of the Springfield district, Mass., 1830-34; and of Providence district, R.I., 1834-35. He was so active in the anti-slavery cause as to have charges preferred against him by his bishop in 1838, but they were not sustained. In 1842,

finding he could not conscientiously remain in a church which sustained the slavery cause, ho withdrew, and was one of the founders of the Wesleyan Methodist church; assembled a con- vention at Utica. N.Y., May 31, 1843, where he was made president of the convention, and directed the formation of its platform, which excluded bisiiops and presiding elders, substituting presidents of conferences and district chairmen. He was editor of the True Wesleyan, 1843-44, and in 1840 he re- tired from the ministry. He is the autiior of An Appeal to the Methodist Ejnscojml Church (1838), and numerous contributions to the True Wesleyan. He died in Newark, N.J., July 31, 1847. SCOTT, Robert Kingston, governor of South Carolina, was born in Armstrong county. Pa.. July 8, 1826. He studied medicine in Navarre,

Medical college, Henry county.

He was was pro- in tiie 2d

Ohio, and at the Starling Columbus, Ohio; practised in Ohio, 1851-57, and engaged in mercantile business, 1857-61. On tiie outbreak of the civil war he joined the Federal army as lieutenant-colonel, 68th Ohio volunteers, and the regiment was assigned to the 3d brigade, 3d division, Army of the Tennessee, under Gen. U.S. Grant, engaged at Fort Donelson and Shiloh moted colonel of the regiment, and wa brigade, 3d division, 17th army corps, in the Vicksburg campaign. He commanded this bri- gade in the Atlanta campaign, and was taken prisoner, but was exchanged Sept. 24, 1864. in time to take part in the struggle for Atlanta and in the march to the sea, and through the Car- olinas. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, Jan. 12, 1865, and was brevetted brigadier-general, U.S.V., Jan. 26, 1865, and major-general, U.S.V., Dec. 2, 1865. He was as- sistant commissioner of the Freedmen's bureau, 1865-68; resigned his commission July 6, 1868, and was elected by the Republican party first governor of South Carolina, under the recon- struction act in 1868; was re-elected in 1870. and served until 1874. In 1871 he was charged with over-issuing state bonds, but defeated a resolu- tion of impeachment by a justification of his ac- tion in a message to the legislature. He ob- tained from the President troops to suppress the KuKlux outrages in South Carolina. He engaged in the real estate business in Columbia, S.C, and removed to Napoleon. Ohio, where he continued the business. On Dec. 25, 1880, he accidentally shot and killed Warren G. Drury, of Napoleon, Ohio; was tried for manslaughter, and acquitted, Nov. 5, 1881. He was stricken with apoplexy in May, 1899, and died in Napoleon, Ohio, Aug. 13, 1900.