ROBERT K. SCOTT, a leading citizen and representative agriculturist of Smith township, is a grandson of Abraham Scott, who was born and reared in Maryland, and when a young man came to Pittsburgh, Penn., afterward settling in Washington county with his brother Alexander. He purchased a wild tract of land near Raccoon postoffice, Robinson township, where his active life was passed in agricultural pursuits. He was married to Jane Finley, a sister of John Finley, the founder of Finleyville, and reared the following children: Rachel (Mrs. James Russell), Mary (wife of Thomas Fletcher), Ann (married to James Kerr), Jane (wife of David White), Elizabeth (Mrs. William Scott), Susan (married to John McBride), Abraham, Finley, Holland and Samuel. The father of this family was a Democrat in politics, and in religion was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Raccoon. Finley Scott, son of the pioneer Abraham Scott, was born in 1800 in Robinson township, this county, and educated in the schools of the neighborhood of his birthplace. In 1822 he married Margaret Stephenson, a daughter of James Stephenson, of Smith township. The young people first located on a farm in Robinson township, remaining there a few years, when they rented a neighboring farm, afterward purchasing a place in Smith township, where they lived twenty years, and finally moved to the home where the remainder of their useful lives was passed. The children born to this couple were Ann, Robert K., James, Samuel, Finley, John, Levi, Jane F. (Mrs. William Cowen) and Margaret (Mrs. Thomas Ackleson). Mr. Scott was the architect of his own fortune, and owned 450 acres of land at the time of his death, which occurred in 1878. He was a Democrat, and held various township offices. In church connection he was first a member of the Associate Reformed Church, in which he was an elder, afterward uniting with the U. P. Church at Burgettstown. Both he and his wife are buried in the United Presbyterian cemetery. Robert K. Scott was born November 8, 1824, on the home place in Robinson township, Washington Co., Penn., and received his education at the primitive log schoolhouse of the day. He has been reared to agricultural pursuits, which have been his life vocation. On June 13, 1850, he was married to Miss Rachel, daughter of Matthew Welch, of Smith township, and they have had children as follows: Margaret A. (wife of John Moore), Elizabeth H. (Mrs. S. D. Moore), Jennie C. (wife of Hugh Lee), Matthew W. and William F. (twins), Agnes (married to John Russell), Robert P. (deceased), Mary C. and Flora M. (wife of T. Nichols). Mr. and Mrs. Scott passed their married life on the old Mathon farm, where the mother died May 18, 1865, and the following year the family moved to their present home in Smith township. Mr. Robert K. Scott adheres to the political faith of his forefathers, being a stanch Democrat, and has served his township as school director and in various other capacities. In church relation he was formerly a member of and an elder in the Associate Reformed Church, which is now the United Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder and active worker.

Text taken from page 1110 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed January 1997 by Jean Suplick Matuson of Plano, TX as part of the Beers Project. Published January 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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