THOMAS B. SCOTT
Thomas B. Scott was born in Linn county, Iowa, on the 11th of March, 1841, his parents being James and Mary Scott. He learned the miller's trade there, and was likewise engaged about three years, when he began farming. In 1873 he left Linn county and moved to Nebraska, where he remained about eleven months, when he came to Cass county and located on a farm about six miles southeast of Wiota, and there remained until 1883, when he began his present business. Mr. Scott has a fine stock, and is making his mark in the world by his good management and upright business interests. He was married in February, 1868, to Martha J. Elrod, a native of Indiana. They have had two children--Edith, and a son, Roy, who died in August, 1876. Mr. Scott's residence is at Wiota, but besides this he has a residence on his farm, where his wife died in May, 1880.
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. 804.
