From Memorial and Genealogical Record of Dodge and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, publ. 
1894 - Page 159-163
 
W. E. SCOTT.  This gentleman is now living in retirement, having fought the good fight and 
accumulated a comfortable competency for his declining years.  He was born in what is now 
Wyoming County, N.Y., November 30, 1822, a son of E. W. SCOTT, who was born near 
Providence, R.I., in which State the paternal grandfather was also born, the family being of 
Scotch descent.  E. W. SCOTT grew to manhood in the State of his birth, moved to western New 
York about 1817, was one of the first settlers of Genesee County and there cleared and opened 
up a farm, on which he reared his family.  He died there in 1875, but his widow, who was formerly 
Miss Eliza FULLER, a native of Vermont, and who moved to New York with her parents when a 
miss of eight years, and grew up there and married, spent the last years of her life in Dodge 
County, Wis., dying in Waupun in 1891, at the age of eighty-nine years.  W. E. SCOTT grew to 
manhood in Genesee County, and while growing up was given the advantages of the common 
schools.  He remained with his father until he attained his twentieth year, then began doing for 
himself, and for two years and nine months worked on a farm.  In 1845 he came to Wisconsin, 
and arrived in Dodge County on the 3d of October, and the same year entered a tract of land in 
Section 29, Chester Township, on which he at once built a log shanty, in which he lived for a 
short time, then built an ordinary frame house.  The first winter that he was here he made rails 
and fenced eighty acres of land for himself and a like amount for a neighbor, making from 9,000 
to 10,000 rails the first winter.  A few years later he bought more land and now has finely 
improved land amounting to 295 acres in two farms, there being a good residence and barns on 
each.  In 1891 he built a neat residence on the property on which he now resides, into which he 
moved in May 1892, and has since been retired from the active duties of life.  He has been more 
successful in the accumulation of means than the average, and his property has been acquired 
through undeviating industry and enterprise.  Although originally an old Jacksonian Democrat, he 
has been a Republican since the organization of that party, and has been quite active in local 
political affairs and has ably filled a number of township offices, such as treasurer, justice of the 
peace, chairman of the board of supervisors, and for nearly a quarter of a century has been a 
side supervisor.  He has been a delegate to numerous county conventions, and no matter in what 
office has been placed he has ably discharged his duties.  He was first married June 3, 1847, to 
Miss Sarah J. VAN DEWATER, a native of the State of New York, who died in November 1848, 
leaving a daughter, Jeanette, wife of Ferdinand JACOBS, agent and operator at Atwater Station.
 
In 1850 Mr. SCOTT was married a second time, Miss Jeanette PURDIE, a native of Scotland, 
becoming his wife.  She was brought to this country in infancy, was reared in New York, and 
came to Wisconsin, after reaching womanhood, with her parents.  Her union with Mr. SCOTT has 
resulted in the birth of six children: Eliza, wife of Warren PAGE, of Codington County, S.D.; John 
F. is a finely educated man, a teacher by profession, and at present is pursuing this occupation in 
the Sandwich Islands, being employed by this Government; Hanan is a successful lawyer of 
Hollister, Cal.; Flora is the wife of L. M. HALL, a farmer and stock dealer of this section, whose 
sketch appears herein; Isabel is the wife of Clarence W. CLARKE, a prominent business man of 
New Haven, Conn.; and David P., who died February 28, 1886, at the age of twenty-one years.  
He was a young man who possessed many noble traits of character and was pursing a business 
course in an educational institution of Milwaukee when taken ill.  He came home and here died 
quite suddenly.  For forty-nine years Mr. SCOTT has resided in Dodge County and during this 
time he has lived a useful life and his good name has ever been above reproach.
 
Submitted by Carol