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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York published by John M. Gresham & Co. in 1891. 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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J. FRANK SCOTT, an enterprising merchant in the village of Portland, is a son of William H. and Sarah (Beck) Scott, and was born in the town of Gerry, Chautauqua county, New York, April 6, 1860. He comes from an old Scotch family, his grandfather, Rev. John Scott, having come to America from that country in 1818. Rev. John Scott was born in 1793. He was educated for the ministry and was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal church. Upon his arrival in the new world he came to Chautauqua county and had a large circuit. He died in 1861, aged sixty-eight years. William H. Scott was born in the town of Chautauqua, in 1833, where he lived for many years, but now makes his home in the town of Gerry where he is a farmer. Since the organization of the board of trade at Sinclairville in 1881, he has been its president. Mr. Scott identifies himself with the Republican party and has been a supervisor of the town of Gerry three terms. In 1856 he married Sarah Beck, a native of Pennsylvania. She is a daughter of John Beck and was born in 1836. She is a pleasant unassuming lady and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. Scott were blessed with four children, two sons and two daughters.
J. Frank Scott was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. He followed agriculture until 1878 and then engaged as a general clerk in a store which employed him for several years. 1883-84 was spent in Tennessee where he was lumbering, and in April, 1889, he embarked in the general mercantile business at Portland, which he is still following under the firm name of J. Frank Scott & Co. They have a large general stock and enjoy a good trade.
In December, 1878, Mr. Scott married Cora Phillips, a daughter of A. J. Phillips, of Cattaraugus county, this State, and they have one child: Bessie F., born in 1880.
J. F. Scott is a republican, a member of the Knights of Pythias, Brocton Lodge, No. 284, and, with his wife, is connected with the Equitable Aid Union. He is a bright business man, progressive, public-spirited and popular.
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