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John Scott
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JOHN SCOTT, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1782, son of William SCOTT, a native of the same city, and by trade a shoemaker, who immigrated with his family to
Philadelphia in 1783, worked at his trade in that city for fifteen years, and then removed to a farm in Lawrence county William SCOTT purchased 200 acres, and was among the pioneers of western Pennsylvania He died upon his farm in Lawrence county at an advanced age.
He was a ruling elder of the Seceder church, and one of the founders of that society at Moundville, Lawrence county. He was the father of the following children: John; Jane, who married Robert WHITE; Nancy, who married Samuel STEWART; Elizabeth, who married Thomas MOORE;
Annie, who married Alexander MORRISON; Margaret, who became the wife of James YOUNG, and William. All of the foregoing are dead. The subject of this sketch was only one year old when his parents settled in Philadelphia. He learned the shoemaker's trade with his father and
removed with him to Lawrence county, where he assisted him to clear the homestead farm. In 1805 he married Rachel MORRISON, who became the mother of nine children, viz.; William; Mrs. Nancy MOORE; Mrs. Elizabeth MORRISON; Mrs. Rosa KIRKER; Mrs. Jane MORRISON; John; Mary;
Francis M., and Mrs. Margaret WRIGHT. About 1820 John SCOTT and family removed to Lancaster township, Butler county, and settled upon the farm where his son Francis M. now lives. Here his wife died in 1841, and himself in 1865. They were members of the Seceder church,
and in politics, he was a Democrat, and an ardent Abolitionist. He served at Erie during the War of 1812.
Source: History of Butler County Pennsylvania, 1895 Biographical Sketches, Chapter 73 Submitted by Jeanne Hall |
