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Below is a family biography included in History of Warren County, Iowa published by Union Historical Company in 1879.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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SCOTT, ALEXANDER, farmer, and capitalist; Sec. 16; P. O. Milo; he was born March 3, 1817, in Delaware; his parents moved to Ohio, in the fall of 1817; here he was educated and lived till 1849, he moved to Lee county, Iowa, and the following year moved to Van Buren county, Iowa, where he lived till the spring of 1852, when he came to Marion county, Iowa; there he was very successful in his farming enterprises, but being desirous of increasing his landed estates, he sold out his farm and came to this county and settled where he now lives; he has owned over 600 acres of land in this county, the most of which he has given to his children, reserving only the fine farm on which he lives, for himself; he has been very successful in life and laid up a competency for the down-hill side of life; he has been town trustee, and is now a director of the First National Bank of Indianola, of which he is a large stockholder; he was married March 5, in 1844, to Alice Brindley, a native of Maryland; they have a family of seven children: Oliver, Elenor, James, Nathan, Lewis, Phoebe, and John Fremont, all living.

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This family biography is one of 548 biographies included in The History of Warren County, Iowa published in 1879.  For the complete description, click here: Warren County, Iowa History and Genealogy

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