Served in Indian wars, Puget Sound, 1855-56.
Returned to Oregon City, September, 1856.
Attended Pacific University, preparatory department, December, 1856-April, 1857.
Attended academy, Oregon City, winter of 1858-59.
Returned to Pacific University, fall of 1859.
Graduated Pacific University, only member of first graduating class, 1863.
Librarian Portland Library, 1864-65.
Admitted to Oregon Bar, September 7, 1865.
Married Elizabeth A. Nicklin, Salem, October 31, 1865.
Editor Oregonian, April 17, 1865-September 11, 1872; April 1, 1877-August 7, 1910.
Collector of Customs, Portland, October 1, 1870-May 31, 1876.
Married Margaret McChesney, Latrobe, Pa., June 28, 1876.
President Oregon Historical Society, 1898-1901.
President Lewis and Clark Exposition, 1903-4.
Director Associated Press, 1900-1910.
Died at Baltimore, Md., August 7, 1910.
Scott was a pioneer of pioneers. In the journey across the plains the family were compelled to leave behind them in shallow prairie graves the mother (Anne Roelofson Scott) and a little brother 4 years old. The graves themselves were hidden, to protect the bodies from desecration by the savages who beset the westward caravans Not to go exhaustively into the family's historical background, let it simply be said that the father, John Tucker Scott, of rugged Scotch ancestry, had been the first settler in Groveland township, Illinois, where he had journeyed from Kentucky in 1824. There Harvey Scott was born 14 years later.
Two sisters, Abigail Jane (Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway) and Catherine Amanda (Mrs. Coburn), also in the covered-wagon, became probably Oregon's two greatest women journalists.
After little more than a year in the new home, the family moved to a claim near Shelton, Wash., northwest of Olympia. There in the spring of 1854 the young Scott worked as a woodsman in the big Washington timber.
These were days of Indian troubles in Oregon and Washington and Scott served in the Indian wars on Puget Sound in 1855 and 1856.
In the fall of 1856, returning to Oregon to attend school while living with relatives, he walked all the way except where it was necessary to cross rivers. He crossed the Willamette in a skiff to the foot of Stark street, Portland, on the morning of October 4, 1856.
