MOSES SCOTT (deceased) was a native of Washington county, Penn., born in Union township, October 15, 1809. He was of Irish descent, his father, Thomas Scott, having emigrated from Ireland to America in 1796, being then a young man of some twenty-two summers. After landing, Thomas Scott proceeded to this county, making a settlement on Mingo creek in Union township, where he cleared the land and followed farming and milling until 1850, in which year he moved into Monongahela City, and there ended his useful life, dying February 19, 1856. In politics he was a Whig, in religion a member of the Mingo Creek Presbyterian church. In 1802 he had married Margaret Turner, a resident of the county, and the children born to them were Rebecca (Mrs. Franklin Goldthrop), William, Joseph, Alexander, Moses, Mary, John, James, Matilda (Mrs. James Rodgers), Elizabeth and Jane. The mother was called to her long home December 24, 1849. Moses Scott, of whom this memoir is written, received a rudimentary education in the schools of the neighborhood, afterward attending Marshall's academy and a school in Monongahela City. He learned the milling business which he followed in his native township until 1850, when he came to Monongahela City. Here, in 1856, he opened a general grocery store, which he conducted several years, and then, selling out the business, moved to Beaver, same State, where he remained some three years, at the end of which time he returned to Monongahela City, and there passed the rest of his life, dying March 5, 1891. Moses Scott was married in 1855 to Miss Rowanna A. McFarland, of Franklin county, Penn. In his political affiliations he was for some time a Republican, but in the later years of his life he voted the Independent ticket. For five years he served as alderman of his adopted city. In early life he identified himself with the Presbyterian Church, but afterward enlisted under the banner of the Baptist faith. His widow is still a resident of Monongahela. James Scott, M. D., brother of Moses, was born in Union township, April 15, 1815. In the subscription schools and at Marshall's academy he received a liberal education. He studied medicine, and at Ohio Medical College took his degree, after which he commenced practice at Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio. He was a very prominent and influential man, and for some time represented his State in the Legislature on the Republican ticket. He married Hannah Fowler, of Cincinnati, and by her had one child that died young. In church connection the Doctor is a Presbyterian.

Text taken from page 1094 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed March 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published March 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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