Born in Le Claire, Scott County, Iowa, April 7, 1845. and died near Camdenton, Camden County, Missouri September 26, 1935. His parents were James and Rebecca (Peterson) Scott. The family removed to a farm in Sugar Creek Township, Cedar County, in 1856. Robert worked on his father's farm and attended public school in the country at intervals. After the firing on Ford Sumter in 1861, one of the pasture fields of their farm was much used for drilling men preparatory to enlistments in the army. He studied military tactics and was elected captain of the local company of boys he drilled. In July, 1862, he tried to enlist in the Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry, and went to the rendezvous at Muscatine. His father protested because of his youth. He returned home and continued drilling boys and young mend until August 31, 1861, when he enlisted as a private among the recruits of Company B of the Twenty-fourth. He was with his regiment until the end of the war, being mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, July 17, 1865. Returning home he resumed farming, joined the Grange, and was soon writing articles for newspapers in advocacy of reformed in freight rates the farmers asked. In 1875 he was elected representative from Cedar County and served in the Sixteenth General Assembly, and was again elected in 1879 and served in the Eighteenth. In May, 1876, Governor Kirkwood appointed him Special Aide to the Governor. He was thereafter popularly known as Colonel Scott. On September 13, 1862, Mr. Scott married Miss Mary Ellen Allyn in Wright County. In 1884 he removed to Des Moines, was admitted to the bar but never engaged in the general practice, dealt some in real estate and soon engaged in writing for the Iowa Tribune.
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