. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history . Show, Dempster, Minot, Adams and other families interwovenin New England affairs from the beginning. No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of life for William A. Scottin his boyhood days, spent in Peterboro, his time being largely passed in the attainmentof a public school education until he graduated from the Peterboro high school with the classof 1874. He, just as his father before him and his son since, entered the Phillips ExeterAcademy. He was a member of the class of 1877 and there continued his studi
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history . Show, Dempster, Minot, Adams and other families interwovenin New England affairs from the beginning. No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of life for William A. Scottin his boyhood days, spent in Peterboro, his time being largely passed in the attainmentof a public school education until he graduated from the Peterboro high school with the classof 1874. He, just as his father before him and his son since, entered the Phillips ExeterAcademy. He was a member of the class of 1877 and there continued his studies for oneyear, at the end of which time he became a student in the law office and under the directionof his father. He next entered Dartmouth College, as his father had done, becoming amember of the class of 1880, and there completed the work of the freshman year. Uponhis fathers death, in August, 1877, however, he left college and removed west, settling inManhattan, Kansas. It was his intention to engage in the cattle business, hut not receiving the financial. WILLIAM A. SCOTT HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 183 assistance he expected, in tlie spring of 1878 he went to Topelia, Kansas, and continuedreading law in the offices of G. C. Clemens and John G. Searles, being admitted to the baron tlie 8th of February, 1879. At that time he located for practice in Russell, Kansas,but the following year returned to Manhattan, where he became a member of the firmof Sawyer & Scott in the conduct of a law, loan and insurance business. During his resi-dence there Mr. Scott was elected to the ofBce of city attorney and was chairman of therepublican county central committee of Riley county. In January, 1881, Mr. Scott visited his home folks and wedded Miss Mary Ellen Wright,of Walthara, Massachusetts, to whom he was engaged before coming west. She was bornin Clinton, that state, a daughter of William and Agnes (Lyon) Wright, natives of Paisley,Scotland, where they were reared and married. They came
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