Scott, Alexander

SCOTT

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 20:46:46

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.640

SCOTT, ALEXANDER, farmer, and capitalist; Belmont Township, Sec. 16; P. O. Milo; he was born March 3, 1817, in Delaware; his parents moved to Ohio, in the fall of 1817; here he was educated and lived till 1849, he moved to Lee county, Iowa, and the following year moved to Van Buren county, Iowa, where he lived till the spring of 1852, when he came to Marion county, Iowa; there he was very successful in his farming enterprises, but being desirous of increasing his landed estates, he sold out his farm and came to this county and settled where he now lives; he has owned over 600 acres of land in this county, the most of which he has given to his children, reserving only the fine farm on which he lives, for himself; he has been very successful in life and laid up a competency for the down-hill side of life; he has been town trustee, and is now a director of the First National Bank of Indianola, of which he is a large stockholder; he was married March 5, in 1844, to Alice Brindley, a native of Maryland; they have a family of seven children: Oliver, Elenor, James, Nathan, Lewis, Phoebe, and John Fremont, all living.