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This office, then one of very great influence, he filled for two years, and he then returned to the pastorate. From 1840 till 1842 he was principal of Dickinson grammar-school. In 1848 he was made one cf the agents of the Methodist book concern in New York city. This position he held for four years, when at the general conference of 1852, at Boston, Mass., he was elected and ordained bishop. The degree of M. A. was conferred upon him by Wesley- an university in 1*40. and that of' D. D. by Delaware college. He fixed his residence, af- ter he was elected bish- op, at Odessa, Del. He was very in<lu-tri- ous in the discharge

of the duties of his

office, and had the reputation of great piety. He lived to fourscore, and for several years was en- feebled in mind and body.

SCOTT, Martin, soldier, b. in Bennington.Yt.. 17 Jan., 1788 ; d. near Molino del Rey, Mexico, 8 Sept., 1847. He was appointed a lieutenant in the army in April, 1814. became captain in the 5th infantry in August. 1828, was brevetted major for gallantry at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, 9 May, 1846, and was promoted major on 29 June. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for services at Monte- rey, where he led his regiment, and he was killed at its head in the battle of Molino del Rey. Col. Scott had been famous as a marksman from early youth, and it is of him that the well-known inci- dent is related of the coon that said: "You need not fire, I'll come down."

SCOTT, Orange, clergyman, b. in Brookfield, Vt., 13 Feb., 1800 : d. in 'Newark. N. J., 31 July, 1847. His parents removed to Canada in his early childhood, and remained there about six years, but afterward returned to Vermont. The son's early education was limited to thirteen months' school- ing at different places. He entered the Metlmdi>f ministry in 1822. and became one of the best-known clergymen of his denomination in New England. He was presiding elder of the Springfield district, Ma-s.. in 1830-'4^ and of Providence district, R. I., in I*:i4 '5. Mr. Scott was active as a controver- sialist. About 1833 he became an earnest anti- slavery worker, and his zeal in this cause brought much unpopularity upon him. His bishop pre- ferred charges against him in 1838, before the New Enirland conference, but they were not sustained. Finally, with others, he withdrew from the church in 1*43, and on 31 May. 1843, organized the Wes- levan Methodist church in a general convention at U'tica, X. Y.. i .f which Mr. Scott was president. Till 1844 he conducted " The True Wesleyan," in advo- cacy of the principles of the new chuivh. which were opposed both to slavery and in the episcopal form of church government. In 1846 failing health forced him to retire from the ministry. Besides many contributions to the press, he was the au- thor of "An Appeal to the Methodist Episcopal Church" (Boston, 1838). See his lite, by the Rev. Luciu-. C. M.-nlack (New York, isi;,.

SCOTT, Richnnl, colonist, b. in Glemsford, Suffolk, England, in 1607; d. in Providence, li. I., about UiM). Hi' was a lineal descendant of John ' Baliol, founder of Baliol college, Oxford. Scott came to Boston in 1634. married Katharine Mar- bury. sister of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson. about 1637, and" soon afterward joined Roger Williams. He was co-proprietor with Williams in the latter's purchase from the Indians, and a signer and the supposed author of the celebrated covenant that was made among the settlers of Rhode Island. In 1657 he became a Quaker, and his wife and daugh- ters were whipped and imprisoned in Boston for their faith. He was a commissioner to Massachu- setts in 1645 to settle the controversy with that colony in regard to Shawomet, and a deputy to the assembly in 1666.

SCOTT, Richard William. Canadian senator, b. in Prescott. Ontario. 24 Feb., 1825. He was educated in his native place, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He was mayor of i Hlawa in 1852, had a seat in the Canadian assem- bly from 1857 till 1863. and in the Ontario assem- bly from 1867 till November, 1873, when he re- signed. Mr. Scott was elected speaker of the Ontario assembly, 7 Dec.. 1871, but resigned on being appointed a member of the executive council and commissioner of crown lands for that prov- ince on the 21st of the same month. He retained this office till 7 Nov.. 1873, when he was sworn as a member of the queen's privy council. He was secretary of state in the Mackenzie administration from 9 Jan., 1874, till October, 1878, when he went out of power with his colleagues in office. He j acted as minister of finance during the absence of Richard J. Cartright in England in 1874, as minis- | ter of inland revenue during the illness of Felix j Geoffrion in 1875-'6, and as minister' of justice during the absence of Edward Blake in England in 1876. He was present at the Centennial exhibi- tion at Philadelphia in the latter year in an offi- cial capacity. Mr. Scott was principally instru- mental in securing the passage of the separate school law of the province of Ontario, and the Canada temperance act, which was framed by him, and which is known as the " Scott act." He be- came a member of the Dominion senate, 13 March, 1874, and was secretary of state in the Laurier administration in 1896.

SCOTT, Robert Kingston, soldier, b. in Armstrong county. Pa., 8 July, 1820. His grandfather fought in the Revolution, and his father in the war of 1812-'lo. The son received a good education, studied medicine, and began practice in Henry county, Ohio. In October. 1861, he became lieutenant-colonel of the (jsth Ohio regiment, of which he was made colonel in 1862. He served at Fort Donelson. Shiloh, and Corinth, led a brigade at Hatchie river. Tenn., commanded the advance of Gen. John A. Logan's division on the march into Mississippi, and was engaged at Port Gibson, Raymond, and Champion Hills. He was afterward at the head of a brigade in the 17th corps, was made prisoner near Atlanta, but was exchanged on 24 Sept., 1864, and was in Sherman's operations before that city and in the march to the sea. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers. 12 Jan., 1865, and also received the brevets of brigadier- and major-general in the volunteer army, to date from 26 Jan. and 2 Dec., l s ii.'i. respectively. Gen. Scott was assistant commissioner of the' Freedmen's bureau in South Carolina in 1865 "8, resigned from the army on 6 July of the latter year, and in IM' S U-e.-imc- the first governor of the reconstructed state, having chosen as a Republican. He was re-elected in L870 b> a majnrily of 33,534 in a total vote of 136.608. In the autumn of 1871 the governor and other