JESSE Y. SCOTT, M.D., one of the leading and most successful physicians in Washington county, is a native of the same, having been born November 13, 1848, in Fallowfield township. His paternal great-grandfather entered the American army at the age of seventeen and served throughout the Revolutionary war. He was at Valley Forge during the memorable terrible winter in that struggle. All the members of his father's family, excepting himself, were killed by Indians immediately before he joined the army. Grandfather Scott was a native of America, and died in Rush county, Indiana. Joseph A. Scott, father of Dr. Scott, was born in Washington county, Penn., October 6, 1806, and his entire life was devoted to agricultural pursuits. In 1835 he went to Peoria, Ill., and there married Miss Eliza Sheplar, a native of Washington county, Penn., whom he brought back to his Eastern home on horseback, and they settled on a farm in Fallowfield township, this county, which was owned by her father. They were the parents of nine children, as follows: two that died in infancy unnamed; Peoria and James Addison, both of whom died in youth; Joseph Clark, who was killed October 31, 1881, at the age of twenty-six by a tree falling on him while riding a wagon along with two other young men; Henry S., at Bentleyville; Smith F., at Beallsville; Margaret M., wife of W. H. Miller, of Washington; and Dr. Jesse Y. The father died February 17, 1881, at the age of seventy-five years; the mother May 15, 1892, aged seventy-seven years. Dr. Scott received a thorough rudimentary training at the common schools of his native township, which was supplemented by a course in the Southwestern State Normal School at California. In 1870 he commenced reading medicine with Dr. J. H. Leyda, of Bentleyville, later attending the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, where he graduated with honorable mention in 1875. He then commenced the practice of his profession. He practiced two years in Centreville (this county); at Pittsburgh, one year; at Bentleyville, eleven years, and at Washington, now nearly four years. On June 6, 1881, Dr. Scott married Ella S. McLean, of Beallsville, daughter of ex-County Commissioner Henry B. McLean. He and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the Improved Order of Heptasophs; politically he is a Republican.

Text taken from page 176 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed February 1998 by Kathy McDowell of Philadelphia, PA as part of the Beers Project. Published February 1998 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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