Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Philip Drennen Scott

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Philip Drennen Scott, secretary of the Van Buren Ice & Coal Company, 
was born here October 22, 1855, and is a son of Charles G. and 
Caroline (Drennen) Scott. The father was born in Galena, Kent Co., 
Md., in 1817, and was a son of Dr. Edward Scott, a native of Kent 
County, Md., born in 1778. He graduated from a medical college in 
Pennsylvania, and was a son of John Scott, who came to America from 
Scotland at a very early date. Dr. Edward Scott's wife, Annie Maria 
Comeygs, was born in Kent County, Md., in 1783, and died in 1857. Dr. 
Scott died in 1840, and was the father of thirteen children. Charles 
G. Scott came to Van Buren in 1836, and engaged in the mercantile 
business until the war. He was one of the original stockholders and 
directors of the Fort Smith & Little Rock Railway, and was president 
of the road fully ten years. From 1863 until 1874 he sold goods in 
Little Rock, and then returned to Van Buren, where he passed the last 
of his life in retirement. He was a successful business man, 
influential citizen, and highly esteemed person, and died in 1882. The 
mother of our subject, Caroline L. Drennen, was born in Nashville, 
Tenn., in 1825, and is a daughter of John Drennen, an early settler of 
the county. Mrs. Scott is still living, and of her seven children, 
four still survive: Emma A. (wife of James Lawson, of Little Rock), 
Fannie M., Philip Drennen and James Stuart (captain of a ferry boat at 
Van Buren). Philip D. attended St. John's College at Little Rock 
during his youth, and in 1874 went into the milling business with 
Thomas Gilham, in Van Buren. Two years later he sold his interest, and 
for five years was in the hardware business. In April, 1887, he became 
secretary of the Van Buren Ice & Coal Company, which position he has 
since filled. He is a good financier, and looks after his mother's 
interests, besides managing the ferry at Van Buren, and is a well-to-
do man. September 28, 1880, he married Fannie I. Dunham, daughter of 
J. S. Dunham, editor of the Van Buren Press. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are 
members of the Episcopal Church, and have two children: Drennen and 
Dunham. Mr. Scott is a Democrat, and member of the K. of P. Besides 
being secretary of the Van Buren Ice & Coal Company, he owns stock in 
that and the Van Buren Canning Factory. 

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