Morgan County AlArchives Biographies.....Scott, John Fletcher 1839 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN FLETCHER SCOTT, son of Charles and Anna (Cully) Scott, natives of Brooke
County, Va., was born October 10, 1839; went with his parents in his infancy to
North Illinois, and later to Lancaster, Wis., where he received his early
instructions in the common schools, and worked in lead mines. When but nineteen
he engaged in commercial business, and in 1865 went to Mexico and became a
contractor on a railroad running from the City of Vera Cruz to the City of
Mexico. After remaining there fifteen months, he returned to Wisconsin, and soon
after went to Memphis, Tenn., and thence to Decatur, Ala., where he located, in
1866, as a merchant. In 1887 he erected the well-known brick building on the
corner of Bank and Lafayette streets. He is a stockholder in the Exchange Bank
of Decatur, the Decatur Land and Improvement Company, the Decatur Building and
Loan Association, and has a fine orange grove in Florida. He has been very
active in building up the town of Decatur.

  Mr. Scott was married January 1, 1877, to Mrs. Mary J. McCallum, nee Smith.

  Charles Scott was born about 1790, and his wife in 1799. He was a merchant,
and afterward conducted a hotel in Lancaster, Wis., where he died in 1842. His
wife died in Decatur in January, 1876. They reared seven children, of whom John
Fletcher is the youngest.


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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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