Samuel Melville Scott, M. D., Allen Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Samuel Melville Scott, M. D., is both a professional and business man of 
Oakdale, having gone to that community when it was chiefly important as 
a lumber milling center, and has been a factor in its life and affairs 
for twenty years.

Doctor Scott was born on a farm in Lonoke County, Arkansas, March 23, 
1873, son of John Thomas and Elizabeth (Cormack) Scott. His mother died 
in 1919 at the age of seventy-six. John Thomas Scott, now eighty-seven 
years of age, was born in Tennessee in 1837, moved from that state to
Arkansas, served a term as Confederate soldier, and was captured and made 
a prisoner and has spent his active life as a farmer. He is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity and is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

Samuel Melville Scott attended country schools in Arkansas, also had the 
benefit of a collegiate institution in that state, and for several summers 
taught school, largely as a means of paying his medical college expenses.  
Doctor Scott took his medical course in Washington University at St. Louis, 
where he was graduated M. D. in 1900. During the following year he was an 
intern in the Charity Hospital at St. Louis. and first engaged in private 
practice at Minden, Louisiana, where he remained three years. In 1905 he 
removed to Oakdale, and has since been engaged in the general medical and 
surgical practice. He was the first president of the Allen Parish Medical
Society when the parish was organized in 1912, and during 1912-14 he served 
as a member of the first parish school board. He is a member of the District, 
Louisiana State, Southern and American Medical associations, and is president 
of the Oakdale Rotary Club. His chief business connection outside of his 
profession is as president of the Scott Cain Motor Company, handling the Ford 
agency for Oakdale and vicinity. Doctor Scott is a member of the Masonic Lodge, 
Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knights Templar Commandery, of the Scottish 
Rite Consistory at New Orleans, and the El Karubah Temple of the Mystic Shrine 
at Shreveport. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

In November, 1902, at Minden, Louisiana, he married Miss Viola Miller, who 
was born and reared in Webster Parish, daughter of James M. Miller, who fought 
as a Confederate soldier, and died in 1919. Doctor and Mrs. Scott have five 
children, named: Mildred, Violet, Margaret, Sylvia and Samuel Melville, Jr.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 242-243, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.