B.F. Scott, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

B. F. SCOTT, manager of the Alliance Store of Lecomopte, La., is a native
of Vermont, born in 1832, and was there reared and educated until about
seventeen years of age.  From there he then went to Ohio, resided in
Cincinnati for about three years with his brother, who was pock-packer, and
graduated from Bartlett's Commercial College, while there.  After leaving
Cincinnati Mr. Scott went to Georgia and taught school for seven years,
during which time he was married to Miss Margaret Aderhold, a native of
Georgia, born in the year1839, and one of his former students.  He came to
Rapides Parish, La., in 1859, taught a country school and kept books for W.
C. James at the same time.  He followed this occupation until the year
1861, and then entered the Confederate Army, Company G, Second Louisiana
Cavalry Regiment.  He operated chiefly on the Mississippi, under Taylor,
and served until the close of the war.  He participated in a number of
prominent engagements, and was captured by Bank's force before he got to
Mansfield to participate in the fight.  He was in prison for months and was
exchanged, after which he joined his command and was with the same until
cessation of hostilities.  He was guarded while in prison in Alexandria,
before being transferred to New Orleans, by one of his own brothers, a
citizen of Minnesota, and a soldier under Gen. Banks.  Mr. Scott was made
sergeant soon after he entered the army, and acted in that capacity all the
way through.  Returning home after the war he again followed his profession
of school teaching and continued at this for seventeen consecutive years
after the war.  He then changed from school teaching to farming, and is now
the owner of 100 acres of land.  He was made manager of the Alliance store
in November, 1888, and still fills that position.  All the Alliance is in
the co-operative union store, 250 members, and our subject is president of
Lecompte Farmers' Union Lodge, having filled that position for two years.
He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., third degree, and was master of the
Fellowship Lodge for twelve or thirteen years.  He has also been district
deputy grand master of the Twelfth Masonic District for ten years.  He
joined the Masons when he was twenty-one years of age, and has been a
member of that organization for thirty seven years, and always in good
standing.  In politics he affiliates with the Democratic party, but is
non-partisan.  His marriage was blessed by the birth of six children:
Jonathan W., Georgia A., Mary A., Michael A., Rogene A. and Benjamin
Franklin Pierce.  He was one of ten children-six sons and four
daughters-all of whom grew to maturity, and five of whom are still living,
born to the union of Jonathan and Almira (Ward) Scott.  The father was a
native of Vermont, was a farmer, a soldier of the War of 1812, and died in
his native state.  He and his wife were members of the Congregational
Church.  Grandfather Scott was probably a native of England, and his wife
of Germany.  Our subject paid his people a visit this summer (1890), the
first time for forty-one years.  The Alliance store, of which Mr. Scott is
manager, has a good trade outside of the Alliance, had an annual business
of $36,000 last year.  Our subject's head is white as snow, but his limbs
are almost as supple as when a boy.  His health is extremely good; he has
not had a spell of sickness for many years, and now labors eighteen hours a
day.