Jacob A. Scott
Jacob A. Scott, proprietor of a farm of a fraction more than eighty-three acres in Sugarcreek township, on which he has made his home for about twenty-six years, was born in the village of Lytle, in, the neighboring county of Warren, April 7, 1854, son of Vincent and Mary Jane (Duvell) Scott, the former of whom was of Shaker stock and believed to have been born in the state of New York.
Vincent Scott was a blacksmith and operated a shop at various times at Lebanon, Lytle and other points in Warren county. He also for some time operated a houseboat on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, carrying on a blacksmith shop and a grocery store on the boat, and was thus engaged in the South when the Civil War broke out. He was given sixty days in which to close out his affairs and get back on the other side of the Mason and Dixon line and thus was compelled to dispose of his stuff at a loss, in fact the war "cleaned" him of all he had. He returned to Ohio, but after the war went to Texas, remaining there about a year, at the end of which tirne he returned to Ohio and here spent the rest of his life, his death occurring at Xenia when past seventy years of age. Vincent Scott was thrice married. By his first wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, he had three children, those besides Jacob being William Winfield, who died in 1918, and Anna, who died in infancy. After the death of the mother of these children Vincent Scott married Elizabeth Denlinger, who bore him eight children. His third wife was a Chenoweth.
Jacob A. Scott was but a child when his mother died and he was reared away from home, for five years making his home with and working for Jarvis Stokes, who owned a farm of six hundred and forty acres in the Lytle neighborhood. He then for three years worked for Turner Hays, and then went down to Mason, also in Warren county, where and in the neighborhood of which place he worked for Asa Coleman and others for five years; going there without a dollar and having nine hundred dollars at the end of the five years. With this comfortable "nest egg" he returned to Lytle and after two years of further employment there was married. Tliat was in 1881. His wife died fourteen months later and in 1885 he married again and then came up into Greene county and located on a farm in Sugarcreek township. Four years later he moved to a farm in the Spring Valley neighborhood and a year later, in 1892, bought the farm on which he is now living, in Sugarcreek township, rural mail route No. 1 out of Spring Valley, and has since resided there. Since taking possession of that place Mr. Scott has made numerous improvements on the place, erecting his present dwelling house and all the farm buildings. He is a Democrat, for fifteen years served as road supervisor in his district, for twenty years as school director and has for several years taken the school enumeration in his district. He and his family are members of the (predestinarian) Baptist Apostolic church.
As noted above, Jacob A. Scott has been twice married. In 1881 he was united in marriage to Clara Goodill, who also was born and reared at Lytle, and who died fourteen months later without issue. In 1885 Mr. Scott married Amanda Jane Wright, who was born in Iowa, a daughter of Aaron and Sarah (Buckles) Wright, and to this union five children have been born, namely: Nina P., wife of Robert Stiles, of Sugarcreek township; John W., who married Florence Gregg and is also living in Sugarcreek township; Nora, at home; Jacob S., who married on March 7, 1918, Lillie Hayle and lives with his parents, and Israel.
From Portrait and Biographical Album of Clark and Greene Counties, Chapman Bros., Chicago, published 1890