Morgan-Madison-Montgomery County AlArchives Biographies.....Scott, William W. 1852 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  WILLIAM W. SCOTT, son of William and Roxet L. (Wandley) Scott, was born in
Luzerne County, Penn., December 25, 1852. He was reared in Philadelphia, and
received his education at the public schools. He began life as a bell-boy at the
Jefferson Hotel, that city. After a varied experience in all the different
positions connected with hotels and their management, he came to Huntsville,
Ala., in 1872, and was there connected with the Huntsville House; thence he went
to Blount Springs, and later on to New Orleans. He spent some time in different
hotels in Montgomery; was proprietor of the Clifton House, Verbena; was
connected with hotels in New York, Long Branch and Birmingham, where he
speculated in real estate. In March, 1887, he became a real estate dealer and
speculator in Decatur. He is a stockholder in the Decatur Land Company, and was
one of the incorporators of the Mineral Land Company.

  William Scott, Sr., was a native of Scotland, and his wife was born in
Pennsylvania. He came to the United States in 1840, and was here for a time a
fur dealer, and afterward a contractor on public works. In the latter business,
he assisted in the construction of the Lehigh Valley Canal, in Pennsylvania. He
died in 1854. His wife still survives him.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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