| EugeneJ. Scott |
EUGENE J. SCOTT, one of the leading farmersand stockmen of Schuyler county, Illinois, was born at Georgetown, Scottcounty, Kentucky, June 3, 1845. He passed a quiet, uneventful youth, remainingunder the parental roof until his marriage. He was first united to MissIda V. Watson, March 15, 1877. She was born in Collinsville, Illinois,February 7, 1847, and died in Schuyler county, Illinois, January 1, 1881;her father was a physician, who died when she was yet a child. By thismarriage one child was born, Eugene W., the date of his birth being February6, 1879, and the place Rushville township. Mr. Scott was married a secondtime, April 10, 1888, when he was united to Miss Nora L. Finch, who wasborn in Greenfield, Greene county, Illinois, July 6, 1855, a daughter ofThomas and Eliza Finch. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are the parents of one child,Thomas F., born May 28, 1889.
Mr. Scott lived on a farm four years afterhis marriage, and then rented the land and removed to Rushville; here heowns a pleasant residence, and is very comfortably situated. He makes aspecialty of the breeding of fine horses and cattle, his favorite stockbeing Hambletonian horses and red-polled cattle; he has some of the finestanimals in the State, in which he takes a just pride.
In politics he is allied with the Democraticparty. He is a member of the school board, and in this capacity has donehis utmost to further educational advancement. In all the walks of lifehis actions have been characterized by the highest integrity, and he iswell worthy of the confidence reposed in him by his fellow men.
Biographical Review of Cass, Schuylerand Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical Review Publishing Co., Chicago,1892, page 167.
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