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J. R. SCOTT, farmer, P. O. New Hope, was born in England June 29, 1815, and emigrated to America with his parents, Thomas and Ann (Leahman) Scott, when he was quite young. They first settled in Edwards County, Ill., but subsequently moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where our subject received a good common school education. He was the fourth child of a family of eighteen children, and at the age of fourteen years was put to work at the butcher’s trade. He soon opened a shop of his own, and for nearly twenty-eight years sold meat in the markets of Cincinnati. Since 1854, he has been engaged in farming in Scott Township, where he owns 141 acres of land. He was Township Treasurer when the rebel Gen. Morgan made his raid through Southern Ohio, and of course received a call from that brigand robber. In 1838, Mr. Scott married Margaret Gibson, a daughter of George Gibson, of Brown County, and by her had nine children — W. G., a physician in Pueblo, Colo.; Thomas, a soldier in the Seventh Ohio Infantry, died in Indiana, in 1879; Mary Ann (deceased); Albert, who lost his life in the service of his country ; Elizabeth (deceased); Mattie, wife of M. Watson, of Indiana; Sarah A., wife of George Brooks; J. B., a farmer in Iowa, and George at home with his parents. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has been Trustee, class-leader and Superintendent of the Sabbath school. He is a Republican and a charter member of the Odd Fellows Lodge.