DAVID H. SCOTT
David Hamilton Scott, editor and proprietor of the Advocate, is a young man of twenty-eight years of age. He is of Scotch-Irish parentage. He was born in Lucas county, Iowa, and when only a few months old, his parents moved to Allegheny county,Pennsylvania. When he was thirteen years old his father died, and as he was the only boy in the family, had thrown upon him the care of an invalid mother and four sisters, one of which was older than himself, two years, and the other three much younger. Having but very little means and with the hope of regaining his mother's health, the family moved to southern Kansas in 1870, where they resided until the fall of 1872, when they returned to Iowa. In the spring of 1873, he entered the office of the Chariton Patriot, as "devil," and gradually worked his way up until the summer of 1875, when he was made foreman of that office, which position he filled with great credit to himself and his employers on account of his excellent workmanship. Mr. Scott's career in Griswold has been an unusually bright one. He has ever stood by his mother and sisters and has won the universal esteem of all the good people with whom he has come in contact. On the 19th day of April, 1883, he led to the hymenal altar, Miss Rebecca Black, an accomplished young lady, and the first teacher in the primary department of the Griswold schools. This he says is the best act of his life and he advises all his young friends to go and do likewise, and in the words of old Rip Van Winkle, he will say, "here's to your good health, your friends' good health, and may you all live long and prosper."
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 462.
