Sketch of Felix Scott, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Felix Scott, of Monongahela County, VA., settled in St. Charles County
in 1820.  He was educated for a lawyer, and represented St. Charles
County in the Legislature several times, and also in the State Senate,
and was Justice of the Peace in Dog Prairie for many years.  He was a
great fighter, but never got whipped.  His son-in-law once challenged
him to fight a duel, and Scott accepted the callenge.  They were to
fight with double barrelled shot guns, and Scott was not to fire until
after his son-in-law had discharged his piece.  When the fight came 
off, Scott waited patiently until his son-in-law had fired, and then,
instead of shooting him, he laid his gun down, and gave him a good
pounding with his fists.  In 1846 Mr. Scott removed to California, and
from there to Oregon.  He was an ambitious stock raiser, and exhibited
some of his fine cattle at the Oregon State Fair, but did not secure a
premium.  Determined not to be beaten in the future, he went to Bour-
bon County, KY., and purchased a herd of blooded cattle, which he then
drove across the plains to Oregon.  But when he was within a day's
travel of home, he was killed by a man who accompanied him, and his
murderer ran away with the cattle, and was never heard of again.  Mr.
Scott was married twice.  The names of his children were: Taswell,
George, Presley, Herma S., Nancy, Ellen, Harriet, Julia, Felix Jr.,
Maria and Marion.	

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