SCOTT, William

SCOTT, SPAULDING, PEARSALL, HOOPER, KENYON

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Date: 10/17/2001 at 13:59:29

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OLIVE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

WILLIAM SCOTT, dealer in hardware, stoves, .Tinware, etc., Calamus; son of
Nathan B. and Lucy (nee Spaulding) Scott; born May 27, 1819, in Allegany Co., N. Y.; in the spring of 1837, he went to Potter Co., Penn. Married there Miss Harriet M. Pearsall Sept. 18, 1840; she was born in Indiana, May 18, 1819; in
the spring of 1843, he built a raft of lumber, and, with his wife and two children wife's parents, her brother and sister, came on the raft down the Alleghany River to Pittsburgh, where he sold his lumber for $4 per 1,000 feet, shipped on board a boat and came, via Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, to Copperas Creek, Fulton Co., Ill., stopping at his father's, he with a son and daughter having preceded them two years. About two weeks after their arrival, his wife's mother died, and, in July following, her father came to this township stopping with his brother, William Pearsall. In September, Mr. S. and family, his father, brother and wife's brother and sister came to this township: on his arrival here found
himself the possessor of 121/2 cents, a yoke of three-year-old steers and one cow; one of the steers was drowned the following winter; he cut cord wood the same winter at 25 cents per cord, and boarded himself; in 1847, he purchased
forty acres of land, subsequently adding thereto till lie now has about 200 acres, valued at $30 per acre. In the spring of 1850, he made a trip to California, by overland route. In the fall of 1851, he returned home via Panama, New York, Washington, by stage to Wheeling and by Water to Davenport, since which time he has lived on his farm (with the exception of eight months that he
managed the Buena Vista Ferry) till the spring of 1873, he rented his farm and came into Calamus and commenced mercantile business, which he continued till he commenced his present business,
in 1877. Mr. Scott is the only member of his father's family living; there were nine children, he the fifth. Has served as a member of the Board of County Supervisors, also Justice of the Peace, etc. Has six children living—Sardinia M., Sidney S., Fatima, William W., Hattie D. and Alice 0.; lost one—Phileta .0. His son, William W., who is in company with him, was born March 24,1853; married Emma B. Hooper, Nov. 30, 1877; she was
born Dec.20, 1858; they have one son—Clyde L. His eldest son, Sidney S., is engaged in the
dry goods and general merchandise business in this town ; . he was born July 24,1849, and married Rosena Kenyon Jan. 27, 1876; she was born May 3,1857, in Ogle Co., Ill.; they have one son—Harry L.