N. M. SCOTT

SCOTT, STARK

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Date: 5/23/2009 at 16:00:12

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

N. M. SCOTT, Clerk of the Courts; born in Morgan Co., Ind.; located in this county in 1853; married Miss Persis Stark in 1860; she was born in Indiana in 1843; their two children are Minnie and Irena. Republican; members of the Christian Church. He owns a farm of 120 acres, valued at $2,500; he has occupied his present official position the past two years. He enlisted in the 5th Kan. V.C. in 1861; transferred to the 6th Kan. V.C. in 1862; was captured at Mazzard, Ark., July 27, 1864, by Gen. John A. Gano, Confederate Cavalry, and held a prisoner at Tyler, Tex., until May 26, 1865, when he was exchanged and mustered out at St. Charles, Ark., in June 1865.