of the field and staff in June, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. The summer of 1861 was passed in Northern Missouri. In September the battle of Blue Mills Ferry was fought by 500 men of the Third Iowa, a section of artillery and 200 Missouri Home Guards, all under command of Col. Scott, and against several thousand Missouri troops commanded by Hon. David R. Atchison. The Iowa troops acted with much gallantry, but retired before a greatly superior force, the losses being about equal, but the honors were with the Federal forces. During the following winter he served on a military commission in St. Louis, which tried many citizens for acts of disloyalty. One of these was Magoffin, a brother of the governor of Kentucky, whom the commission sentenced to be hung for the assassination of Federal soldiers. In August, 1862, Mr. Scott was made colonel of the Thirty-second Iowa Infantry, the service of which regiment was highly arduous and honorable to the command. It especially distinguished itself in the unfortunate Red River campaign, and in the battle fought at Pleasant Hill, La., under command of Col. Scott, April 9, 1864, proudly illuminated Iowa's warrecord by valor and losses that were scarcely equaled and not surpassed during the entire war. At the Republican State Convention in 1867 Col. Scott's name was presented without his knowledge for the place of lieutenant-governor of Iowa, and he received the nomination and was duly elected, presiding as such over the Senate of the Twelfth General Assembly. In 1869 he was appointed assessor of internal revenue over a district comprising about one-third of the State, extending from Black Hawk County to the Missouri River. He held this position until the duties were transferred to the office of collector. In 1885 he was elected to the Senate of the Twenty-first General Assembly, and, as was always the case, discharged his duties in a very efficient manner. He has also served as township clerk, has been president of the local school board, president of the County Agricultural Society, director and president of the State Agricultural Society, director and president of the State Improved Stock Breeders' Association, president of the State Association for Farmers' Institutes, president of the State Road Improvement Association, president of the County Association of War Veterans, and is now (1890) president of the Old Settlers' Association of Story County. Besides the political, military and semi-public duties appertaining to these positions, and the personal business that has claimed attention in looking after real-estate interests, farming, horticulture, etc., he has found time to edit for two years the Farmer's Journal, at Cedar Rapids, an industrial department in the Davenport Gazette for one year, to contribute to the columns of industrial and local papers, to serve one year as professor of military tactics in the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames, and to compile an extended history of his family. He has, on invitation, delivered addresses on patriotic anniversaries at various places and before all the State associations before named, also the State Teachers' Association, the State Drainage or Tilemakers' Association, besides delivering addresses before the State societies in Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Michigan. In 1858 he was married to Annie Crabb, near his native place, but she died on January 26, 1862, at her father's house in Ohio after a very brief illness. She left two children, neither of whom are now living. November 24, 1863, he wedded Mary S. Wright, of Freeport, Ill., who, with one daughter and three children belonging to his only son, who reached manhood and married, constitute his present family. Many thousand trees of his planting