Patrick F. Scott
Fergus County
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913

Patrick F. Scott is the son of Thomas Scott, a loyal 
native of the good old Emerald Isle. His mother was 
Catheryn Flannery, a clever Irish woman.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas Scott were the parents of eight children of 
which their son Patrick, himself born in Ireland is 
the oldest.  They arrived in America just at the 
outbreak of the Civil War and the father with the 
instinct of the Irishman to be in the midst of all 
action, enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment and 
fought for three years for the cause of the Union, 
the country to which he looked for his future welfare.  
At the close of the struggle he with his little family, 
followed the westward tide and found themselves in Idaho, 
where the father engaged in ranching and stock raising.  
He lived this free and wholesome life until he passed 
away at a good old age.  His wife is still living on 
the Idaho home.

As Patrick Scott was the oldest of eight little children 
for whom his father must provide, it was necessary for 
him to become a wage earner at a very early age.  After 
his tenth year he made his own way in the world although 
he lived under the paternal roof until he was almost 
twenty six.

Born in the north of Ireland, on the 15th day of April, 
1869, and brought to America while still in his infancy, 
he spent the first six years of his life in Pennsylvania.  
At a very early age he began to earn small amounts by 
running errands for the neighbors and helping with 
light work.  In 1876 when the family settled in Idaho, 
he was sent for a time to the public schools of Utah.  
Later he became a pupil in the first Episcopal school 
established in northern Utah.  At the age of seventeen 
he became a helper or "cub" in the blacksmithing and 
iron trade.  It was here in a small town on the 
southern border of Idaho that he learned the trade 
at which he has worked ever since.  While only a 
"cub" he received one dollar a day, a large wage 
for those times and one more proof to his father 
of the wisdom of rearing his children in the west.  
This money was turned into the family coffers.

In 1886, being then twenty six, it seemed to Mr. Scott 
time that he began living his own life.  So saying, he 
crossed into Montana of which state he has been a 
resident ever since.  His first venture was at Granite.  
From there he went to Butte and later to White Sulphur 
Springs.  Later he tried Belt and Niehart and in 1897 
came to Fergus County, settling in Utica. For two years 
he managed a shop at Utica and then moved to Kendall in 
1901 and managed a shop there for nine years, and 
three years ago came to Lewistown and opened up a 
blacksmith shop of unusual proportions.

Mr. Scott says a book which could hold his opinions 
of Montana would be a large volume indeed. He believes 
her to have more natural resources on the surface than 
any other state in the Union, no to mention her other 
attractions.

While living in Sulphur Springs, Mr. Scott met Miss 
Margie Shorey, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Shorey 
of that little city.  Miss Shorey became Mrs. Patrick 
Scott on the 15th of October 1894, thus proving that 
his sojourn in White Sulphur Springs was not in vain.  
Of their seven children only two are sons.  All seven 
were born within the confines of the Treasure State 
although their birthplaces are represented by several 
different towns.  Mabel, the oldest is the only one 
now of school age.  The others are Justin, the eldest 
son, Margie, named for her mother; Bernice, Catherine, 
John who bears the name of his maternal grandfather, 
and Ida, the baby.

Mr. Scott is quite a baseball player and has never 
lost his love of the sport.  His favorite pastime, 
however, is keeping, riding and driving fine horses.  
As a cattle herder on his father's ranch, he learned 
how to handle horse flesh and his fondness for these, 
the most interesting of animals, gives him much pleasure.