SCOTT
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, where 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 church, 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.
