Representative William John Scott View All Years

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William John Scott

Ida County

WILLIAM J. SCOTT was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1855, and died in Geneva, New York, January 10, 1937. His parents were John T. and Martha J. (Campbell) Scott. He attended Girard College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated, and then served an apprenticeship in the drug business in Chester. He removed to Iowa in 1877, worked one year as a drug clerk in Glidden, and in 1878 located in Ida Grove in the drug business. In 1882 he was elected county recorder and was six times re-elected, serving fourteen years. For several years of that time he also acted as city clerk. In 1899 he was elected representative and served in the Twenty-eighth General Assembly. During 1903 to 1906 he was a deputy state oil inspector. He then served eight years as postmaster at Ida Grove during the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. In 1914 he was elected clerk of court for Ida County, and was five times re-elected, serving until 1926, when he resigned and removed to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hugh Baker, in Geneva, New York.

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