Biography of
Charles L. Scott
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CHARLES L. SCOTT, For the past
ten years Charles L. Scott has been identified with the
communal life of Grayville, and has served the city and county in many ways. In
his first years of association with this place he was engaged as principal of
the North Side School of Grayville, but in 1901 he engaged in the hardware
business, in which he has since continued with a most pleasing degree of
success. He has taken an important part in the political life of the county,
having represented his district in the legislature on more than one occasion,
and ordinarily holding positions of importance in the administration of affairs
of the city.
Mr. Scott
was born on January 26, 1876, on a farm in Edwards county. He is the son of
Joseph K. Scott,
born in Kentucky,
in 1837. The father of
Joseph K. Scott
was
James,
a native of Virginia, and a pioneer settler of eastern Kentucky, who migrated to
Edwards county in about 1862 and lived on
a farm there with his son,
Joseph K. The farm of which Joseph Scott became the owner was a tract of about two hundred acres, situated midway between
Grayville and Albion. He married Mary J. Coles, the
daughter of William Coles and his wife, Rachael, Mrs. Scott still lives in Albion, although her husband died in
1885. They reared seven children, five sons and two daughters, here named in the
order of their birth: Laura, who married a Mr. Brewster, is now deceased; John K. lives on the
old homestead; Charles L., of Grayville, Illinois; Katie, married Mr. Harris, and lives
in Ellery, Edwards county; Ella is in Albion with the
mother; Josephine married Mr. Schroeder and lives on a farm near Grayville; Rachael died in
infancy.
Charles L. Scott
was educated in
the public schools of Edwards county. After his graduation from the high school
he spent two years in study at the Danville (Ind.) Normal, and in 1899 was
graduated from the Southern Collegiate Institute of Albion. When he was
eighteen years of age he began teaching between his college courses and he
continued in that profession until 1904. He was principal of the North Side
school of Grayville for three years, as stated in a previous paragraph, which
was the last position he held in that line of work. In 1901 Mr. Scott
became
associated in the hardware business with Joseph Robinson,
under the firm name of Robinson & Scott.
They began with a small capital, but the business has grown
since then until today the total investment is in excess of $25,000. Aside from
his business, to which Mr. Scott
gives close and careful attention, he has been
prominent in a political way for a number of years. He is a Democrat in
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his party belief, but served as a
nonpartisan member of the Grayville city council for four years, and in that
position did excellent work for the city. He served as president of the school
board for two terms, and has ever been an important factor in the growth and upbuilding of the school system of the community. In 1908 Mr. Scott was elected
a member of the forty-sixth general assembly, and was reelected to the
forty-seventh assembly in 1910. He is at the present writing a candidate for
reelection. Mr. Scott is possessed of all the qualities which might be
calculated to fit him for the position of a legislator, and his services to his
district have been of a most unquestionable order since he has represented them
in the legislature.
Fraternally he is affiliated with a number of
societies, among which are the Modern Woodmen, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Mystic Workers of the World and the Knights and Ladies of
Security.
In 1899 Mr. Scott
was united in
marriage with Miss Flora Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson. Two sons have been
born to them, Marion Joseph and Joseph Thomas.
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