Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — JAMES W. SCOTT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JAMES W. SCOTT.

The late James W. Scott, owner and publisher of the Chicagp., Times-Herald and Evening Post, came of a newspaper family. His grandfather’,'as'Well as his father, were newspaper jnen, nnd he became active in the chosen field of his life labors very early in life. He was born in 1849, at Wadsworth, Wis., but when only a few years eld moved with his father to Galena, 111. Here.the attended the public schools, after , which he took a course in Beloit College. His first schooling in the newspaper,,business was in the job office attached to his father's paper at Galena, where h e learned the trade of practicaPprinter. In 1873 he started the Galena Industrial Press. This was a success, and tW'W f yesrs later he went to Chicago, determined to embark in still wider fields of journalism. He bought an interest in the Daily National Hotel Reporter, whiclA was a financial success, but Mr.*Scott, was too ambitious to content himself with anything short of a great general daily newspaper, and in the spring of 1881 he entered upon the, management of the Herald. The success of the Herald was phenomenal, and made

for Mr. Scott the enviable reputation which he for years held as one of thu foremott newspaper men in the land. Later Mr. Scott was instrumental in founding the Evening I’ost, and but a few weeks before his death successfully negotiated the arrangements'' by which ths Herald absorbed the Tinies, and assumed the title of Times-Herald, under which it is now published. For three terms Mr. Scott was chosen president of the Press Club. He belonged to more soeial-jand political clubs than any other man in Chicago, and he was a favorite among the members of all of them. His exertions during the tight for the location of the World’s Fair were untiring, and he did much to secure the victory for Chicago. His sudden death in New York was peculiarly tragic. It came literally in the hour of his success. He had just secured control of the newspaper properties to the building of which he had given his best energies. Tired, but looking confidently to a future in full consonance with his hopes, he prepared to take a little rest. Just over the threshold he was stricken down.