People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — DEATH OF DR. SCOTT. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF DR. SCOTT.

President Harrison's Venerable Father-In-Law Succumbs to Old Age., Washington, Nov. 30.—Death has again visited the white house. At 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon the venerable Dr. Scott, the father-in-law of President Harrison, passed away. The end was not unexpected, as he has been hovering between life and death for several days. His demise was almost confidently expected during the day. President Harrison spent most of the day in the room of the venerable invalid ana was with him at the last moment. The death of Dr. Scott adds one more name to the already long list of deaths within the administration circle. This makes the fifteenth. Of this number three of the deaths have occurred in the Scott' family. It is a record of gloom unprecedented in the history of the white house. The aged invalid passed away without a struggle as quietly and as peacefully as a child falls asleep. He had been unconscious for hours, and was unable to recognize the weeping friends at his bedside. Stimulants were administered hypodermically, but only served to defer the inevitable. The president and family are very much prostrated at their bereavement. [Rev. John Witherspoon Scott, D. D., was born In Beaver county, Pa, June 22, 1800, and was therefore in the 93d year of his age. He was a son of George McElroy Scott, a native of Bucks county. Dr. Scott graduated from a college at Washington, Pa., and subsequently took a post-graduate course at Yale. After-, ward he accepted a professorship in the college from which he graduated, which position he held for two years. About this time he married Mary Neal, and, going west, he accepted a professorship in Miami university at Miami, 0., in 1826. While there three children were born to him—Elizabeth, after ward Mrs. Lord; Caroline, afterward Mrs. Harrison, and John Neal Scott A number of years later Dr. Scott founded the Oxford (Ohio) female college, and in 1850 became its president As he advanced in years Dr. Scott gave uj. the college work and coming to W ashington was appointed to a clerkship in the interior department, which position he held up to the time of the advent in Washington of President Harrison, when he resigned at the instance oi the president and took up his abode at the white house. He was engaged for mont.br prior to his death on a voluminous genealogy of the Scott family, but was unable To finish it]