George E. Scott
George E. Scott, whose highly cultivated farm of 123 acres is situated in Mt. Pleasant Township, is recognized as one of the most practical and progressive men in southern Ohio in matters pertaining to agriculture aud dairying. He was born in this township January 11, 1854, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Evans) Scott.
John Scott was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in October, 1828, a son of Israel and a grandson of Jonathan Scott. Coming to Jefferson County in early manhood to visit an uncle he remained here and later married Elizabeth Evans, who was born in this county, a daughter of George I. and Sarah Evans, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, stock. John Scott died in 1876, his widow surviving him until October, 1886. Their family consisted of the following children: George; Edith L.; Sarah G., who died unmarried; Charles F., who lives at Mt. Pleasant; Mary E.; Anna S., who is the wife of Arthur Evans, of Mt. Pleasant Township; Walter A., who is a successful man of business engaged in the manufacture of automobile tires (married a lady of Chester County, Pennsylvania); J. M., who is a dentist located at Mt. Pleasant; and Amy J., who is the wife of Heber Benton, a large cotton planter in North Carolina.
George E. Scott taught school for several years after completing the higli school course at Mt. Pleasant, the death of his father having prevented his carrying out plans for a higher educational course. For thirty-one years he has resided on his present farm engaging in general farming and dairying together with raising registered Jersey cattle, an enterprise in which he has been successfully engaged for more than twenty years. He devotes a part of his attention to raising grain and seed potatoes. He has always been a man of progressive ideas and a continuous student. For the past two years he has been chief Ohio dairy and food inspector under State Dairy Commissioner R. W. Dunlap and for eighteen years has been engaged in institute work, probably for a longer period than any other man in the state. He is a member of the board of the Ohio Experiment Station at Wooster. He was the organizer and for twenty-five years has been secretary of tiie Farmers' Institute of Southern Jefferson County, an organization that secures the best talent in the state to give lectures on agricultural subjects.
On September 12, 1878, Mr. Scott was married to Miss Emma Catherine Pettit, born September 17, 1859, in Columbiana County, Ohio, a daughter of Milton R. and Sarah (Ladd) Pettit. Her father also was born in Columbiana County and her mother in Virginia. They came from Hanover to Jefferson County when Mrs. Scott was six months old. The father was born in 1822 and died in 1892, and the mother died May 21, 1895, at the age of sixty-four years. By a previous marriage Mr. Pettit had six children but of his second union only two were born, Mrs. Scott and a son who died in infancy. She is a graduate of the Mt. Pleasant high school.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Scott, namely: Edith Clare, who is the wife of Lyman E. Bundy, of near Columbus, and the mother of one son, George Edmund; Sara Elma, who for five years was a teacher in the public schools and is taking a Normal course at Athens College; and Charles Howard, who is a student. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are members of the Society of Friends at Mt. Pleasant.
20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910