. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. kland is John C. Scott, a suc-cessful attorney-at-law, who, although he hasbeen located here for only a few years has al-ready demonstrated the possession of qualitieswhich bespeak pre-eminence in his line. is a native of Denmark, born in 1861, a sonof Christian and Mary Scott, both natives of theFatherland, where they spent their entire C. Scott attended the common schools inhis native country up to his fourteenth
. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. kland is John C. Scott, a suc-cessful attorney-at-law, who, although he hasbeen located here for only a few years has al-ready demonstrated the possession of qualitieswhich bespeak pre-eminence in his line. is a native of Denmark, born in 1861, a sonof Christian and Mary Scott, both natives of theFatherland, where they spent their entire C. Scott attended the common schools inhis native country up to his fourteenth birth-day, after which he was variously engaged until1879, in which year he came to the United landed in New York City and at once came asfar west as Iowa, where in Black Hawk county,near the county seat, he found employment on afarm. He followed this work for four years, dur-ing which time he employed every opportunity toincrease his fund of information. A desire tothoroughly master the English language led tohis attendance of the normal school at CedarFalls, Iowa, where he pursued his studies forsome time. Returning again to the business of I. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 601 money getting, he taught school during the win-ters and farmed in the summers, continuing thisfor five years, and in the meantime began thestudy of law. Admitted to the bar of the state of Iowa, May15, 1889, Mr. Scott opened an office in CedarFalls and began a practice which continued forthe period of thirteen years. Coming to Cali-fornia in the spring of 1902, he opened his prac-tice with offices at No. 100$}^ Broadway, wherehe is now actively engaged in the civil and crim-inal practice. In 1892 Mr. Scott was married toMiss Minnie Thompson of Cedar Falls, thedaughter of S. Thompson, a much respected citi- /^^n of that place, and they have one son, LeoL. Their home is located at No. 4336 Howardstreet, Oakland. Mr. Scott joined the Masons atWaterloo, Iowa, in 1888, and is also a memberof
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