SCOTT, WILLIAM

SCOTT

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/16/2013 at 07:59:50

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 816-817

SCOTT, WILLIAM--Section 22, farmer, P.O. Victor. Was born in 1808, in Ireland, where he lived till four years old, then came with his parents to America, and settled in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, where he lived and attended school a few years. He moved to Ohio, and engaged in tilling the soil until 1849, when he came to Iowa, and settled in this county, where he now lives and owns a good farm of 375 acres of well improved and stocked land. Mr. Scott was married in 1838, in Holmes county, Ohio, to Miss Eliza Manatt, who was born in 1818, in Ohio; from this union they have two sons: Robert (born July 2, 1840; now married and lives in Warren township) and William (born September 18, 1842; who, while drawing wood from the timber, March 12, 1874, was caught between a limb of a tree and his load doubling him in such a manner as to injure his spine, from which he has never recovered and now uses crutches). Mr. and Mrs. Scott have also buried two infants.