Scott, Walter

SCOTT, EVANS, ASHMORE, NEWTON

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Date: 4/6/2009 at 10:19:14

A Narrative History
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The People of Iowa
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SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC.
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EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
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Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
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WALTER SCOTT is a banker at Hawarden, but his active associations with that section of Northwestern Iowa have not been confined to running a bank. He has been a leader in business and in civic affairs there for many years.

Mr. Scott is a native of Dakota Territory, born in what is now South Dakota, July 22, 1869, son of Adam and Jane (Evans) Scott. His parents came to what is now Sioux County, Iowa, in 1867, when there were more Indians than white people living in that region. His father was of Scotch and English ancestry.

Walter Scott attended school in South Dakota, grew up on a farm and ranch, and he has always kept in close touch with the live stock and agricultural interests of Northwestern Iowa and the Dakotas. After reaching the age of twenty-one he engaged in the live stock and meat market business and after 1900 was a dealer in and shipper of live stock, giving most of his attention to that business until 1917, when he engaged in banking, organizing the Farmers State Bank of Hawarden. He has been president of the institution from the beginning. Mr. Scott supervises some valuable farming interests, including about a thousand acres of land, and continues to give much attention to the live stock business.

As a citizen of Hawarden he was for ten years chief of the fire department, was mayor for six years, for twelve years was president of the school board, and has been generous of his means and his influence in promoting every worthy undertaking. He is a Republican in politics, and belongs to the various Masonic bodies, being past master of Dale Lodge No. 456, A. F. and A. M. and past patron of the O. E. S. He is a member of the Sioux City Consistory and the Abu-Bekr Temple of the Mystic Shrine, also at Sioux City, and the Royal Arch Chapter at Hawarden. He is a Rotarian and a member of the Congregational Church.

He married, November 1, 1893, Miss Millie O. Ashmore, of Hawarden, daughter of U. R. and Frances F. (Newton) Ashmore. They have two daughter,s Cora A., born July 28, 1895, and Ethel F., born March 16, 1898. Cora married, June 1, 1916, Elmer Younie, a farmer living in Hawarden, and they have three
children: Elmer Scott, born in 1918, while his father was overseas in the A. E. F.; Eugene, born February 19, 1921, and Margorie Waite, born January 7, 1926, Ethel married, in 1920, Lawrence L. Dagle, and they have three boys: Chester, born February 17, 1921; Walter, born in January, 1925; and Donald, born in April, 1927.

~Transcribed by Debbie Clough Gerischer, the Iowa History Project