Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . leaves his posterity theinheritance of a noble name and the memo-ries of a useful life. KENNEDY SCOTT. Kennedy Scott is one of the most pub-lic-spirited and influential citizens of Rio,Columbia county, and has been identifiedwith many efforts to advance the moral andmaterial interests of the village and thecounty. He was born in Warren, Trumbullcounty, Ohio, the i6th day of Novem-ber, 1842, and is a son of William andJane (Kennedy) Scott, both natives ofcounty Tyrone, Ireland. His father came
Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . leaves his posterity theinheritance of a noble name and the memo-ries of a useful life. KENNEDY SCOTT. Kennedy Scott is one of the most pub-lic-spirited and influential citizens of Rio,Columbia county, and has been identifiedwith many efforts to advance the moral andmaterial interests of the village and thecounty. He was born in Warren, Trumbullcounty, Ohio, the i6th day of Novem-ber, 1842, and is a son of William andJane (Kennedy) Scott, both natives ofcounty Tyrone, Ireland. His father cameto this country in 1840 and located at War-ren, his mother following a year later. Inthe spring of 1850 the family came to Wis-consin, and settled in the town of Spring-vale, Columbia county, where the fatherbought wild land for a farm at three dollarsand fifty cents an acre. He died on his farmin 1877 at the age of seventy-four. He wasjustice of the peace for twenty years inSpringvale, though he was never an activepolitician. He was one of the founders ofthe local Congregational church with which. KEHHEEY SCOTT. COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAniY. 425 he and his wife were always identified. Hisfather, Andrew Scott, hved and died on -xfarm in county Tyrone, Ireland. Mrs. JaneScott died in Rio in 1882 at the age of sev-enty-seven. Her father. William Kennedy,was a soldier in the British army, and died intlie service. She was reared hy an uncle,Sanuicl McKenna. She was the mother often children, six of whom were born in Ire-land : Samuel died in Springvale, aged sev-enty years; Alary Jane is the wife of CharlesDowd, and has livetl in Wyocena township,Columbia county, on the same farm since1848: \\illiam is at Ellendale, North Da-kota: Joseph, Staceyville, Iowa; John, El-lendale, North Dakota; James, Oakes, NorthDakota; Kennedy, the subject of this arti-cle; Lydia Ann, Mrs. James H. Palmer, diedin 1863, at the age of nineteen years; Har-riet, Mrs. David Coff, Springvale township;Merrilla, Mr
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