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WILLIAM T. SCOTT, Calloway County, is a native of Muhlenburg County, this State, and was born November 25, 1828, the eldest son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Gish) Scott, both of whom were Virginians by birth, and who came to this State in 1828, settled in Muhlenburg County, and four years later moved to Hopkins County, where the father died in 1836. Our subject lived with his uncle, Joseph Scott, in Hopkins County, Ky., until he was fourteen years old, when, after a few years’ residence in Muhlenburg County, he went to Hopkinsville, Ky., and served a three years’ apprenticeship to the cabinetmaker’s trade. For the following five years he was engaged at his trade in Cadiz, Ky., and coming to Murray, Ky., in 1856, he continued the same business for two years; afterward he operated a saw and grist mill, and engaged in various business enterprises. During two years of the war he served as a constable, and was at one time the only civil officer in Calloway County. For several years afterward Mr. Scott was engaged in business at various points, but, becoming partially paralyzed, returned to Murray in 1869, being laid up several months with his malady. He has served as police judge, county examiner, justice of the peace four years, and being a conservative Democrat, was appointed postmaster at this point in 1877, and has since filled that position. November 25, 1851, he married Melissa Miller, of Cadiz, Ky., of which union there are two children living: Ada N. (widow of Felix G. Boyd), and Jennie E., at home. Mr. Scott is a member of the Odd Fellow and Masonic fraternities, and a stanch friend of the temperance movement.