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Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II p. 124, 126 photo p. 125 JUDGE TULLY SCOTT. Judge Tully Scott, associate justice of the supreme court of Colorado and a resident of Denver, was born July 12, 1857, in St. Paris, Ohio, a son of David and Mary J. (Lippincott) Scott. His grandfather in the paternal line was Tully Scott, a native of South Carolina and of Scotch descent. He became an early resident of Kentucky, where his father, David Scott, had received a grant of land. He afterward removed to Ohio. David Scott, the great-grandfather, served his country as a soldier in the Revolutionary war and for his services received this grant. Henry Clay Scott, a brother of the father of Judge Scott, was killed at Kenesaw Mountain while serving as a soldier in the Civil war. In the family of Tully Scott, Sr., were four sons, Including the Rev. David Scott, father of Tully Scott of this review. He, too, was a Civil war soldier, holding the rank of first lieutenant in General Garfield's regiment-the Forty-second Ohio Infantry. He resigned a pastorate to enter the service of the country in defense of the Union and assisted Garfield in raising his regiment, but after eleven months' service he had to resign on account of ill health. He was a Baptist minister and devoted the greater part of his life to the task of teaching the gospel. He married Mary J. Lippincott, a daughter of Henry Lippincott and a representative of the old Lippincott family of Pennsylvania. Her father was the founder of the town of Lima, Ohio, and she was the first white child born in Alien county. Her mother's brother, William Wood, was General Harrison's chief of scouts and was at the battle of Tippecanoe. It was in the year 1874 that Rev. David Scott removed with his family to Mitchell county, Kansas, where he took up a homestead and followed farming in connection with his work in the ministry. Much of the labor of the fields, however, was performed by his son Tully, while the father devoted his attention to pastoral service. To him and his wife were born nine children, only three of whom are now living: Judge Scott, of this review; David, who is a resident of Kerman, California; and Lochiel W., who is a prominent merchandise broker of Kansas City, Missouri. Judge Scott was the eldest of the family of nine children and was a youth of sixteen years when his parents removed to Kansas, where for some time he concentrated his efforts and attention upon the development of the homestead. He taught school in the winter months and thus was able to meet the expenses of his college work and professional training. For a time he engaged in freighting between Waterville and Beloit, Kansas, a distance of one hundred miles, prior to the building of railroads in that section of the country. He took up the study of law under the direction of the firm of Cooper Brothers, of Beloit, Kansas, and had studied in the Kansas State Agricultural College. In 1880 he was admitted to practice at the Kansas bar and opened an office in Beloit. Later he was appointed receiver of public moneys at Oberlin, Kansas, by President Cleveland and occupied that position from 1885 until 1889. He removed to Cripple Creek, Colorado, in 1901 and since that time has figured prominently in connection with public affairs and legal interests in the state. He was always accorded a large and distinctively representative clientage and his marked ability ultimately won for him high judicial honors. In the meantime he became associated with legislative work in Colorado, having been elected a member of the state senate, in which he served from 1907 until 1911. In the latter year he was appointed presiding judge of the Colorado court of appeals and served for two years, while in 1913 he was elected associate justice of the supreme court of Colorado and has since occupied a place upon the bench, proving himself the peer of the ablest members who have sat in this court of last resort. Judge Scott has been married twice. On the 15th of July, 1885, he wedded Miss Emma J. Kempthorme, a native of Beloit, Kansas, and a daughter of James and Jane (Thompson) Kempthorme, of that place. Mrs. Scott passed away at Oberlin, Kansas, in 1888, leaving a son, Kempthorme Scott, who is now in the naval service of the government as an instructor, having served for four years prior to the outbreak of the war against the central powers. In 1891 Judge Scott was again married, his second union being celebrated at Pana, Illinois, when Miss Harriet I. Hunter became his wife. She is a native of that state and a daughter of John W. and Martha (Vermillion) Hunter, who were very early settlers of Illinois. To this marriage has been born a daughter, Mira, now the wife of Dr. Lorenz W. Frank, a prominent physician of Denver; and a son, Jack Garrett, a graduate of Colorado State University and now also in the naval service of his country. Judge Scott was long a prominent figure in political circles in Kansas and served as a member of the state central committee. He is a Mason, belonging to the Knight Templar commandery and the Mystic Shrine, is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and with the Knights of Pythias. In the last named he has served as grand chancellor in Kansas and was a member of the supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias for six years, while for a decade he served as a member of the supreme tribunal and otherwise has been very active in that order and in Masonic circles as well. His efforts and attention, - however, have largely been concentrated upon professional interests and duties, and his logical grasp of facts and principles of the law applicable to them has been a potent element in his success. His career is characterized by a masterful hold of every problem presented for solution.