FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO BIOS; SCOTT,Charles 
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Franklin Co. Oh Biographies

 Charles Scott came to this place in 1825, from near Chillicothe ,
then nineteen years old-commenced work in the office of George Nashee and
P.H. Olmsted-his motto was " go ahead , when there is work to do"- by close
application and energetic effort , he soon made larger bills then any other
journeymen in the office. He gave a large part of the proceeds of his labor
to his father , who had a young family by a second wife. In 1829 -30 Mr.
Scott was absent from the city some year or more, as the agent of the late
Horton Howard in collecting claims- on his return , he found his father in
bad health , and out of work and the family in want of the common
necessaries of life- he at once advanced the necessary funds to place them
in a comfortable condition and continued to do so -until the family grew up
to a mature age, although his father died shortly after his return to the
city. In a few years although thus benevolent , he accumulated a sufficient
sum to commence a Job of!
fice in connection with S.E. Wright. In 1834 , Mr Bailhacle , proprietor of
the Ohio State Journal, was so mortified at being beaten by Warren Jenkins
for Justice of the Peace, that he concluded to sell out. Messrs. Scott and
Wright were the purchasers-since which Mr. Scott through all the various
changes of the Editors of the paper has been principal proprietor of the
Journal and has bent all his energies to make the paper in mechanical
execution , equal at least to any other published in the West, and probably
of the Union; and the office second to none, in materials and fixtures, for
the facility and execution of work. Mr Scott has fully and honorably
obtained the height of his ambition- and any one wishing to examine a model
printing office, by calling on Charles Scott at the counting room, will be
politely conducted through his extensive buildings to the several
departments for printing, stereotyping and binding. Mr. Scott by industry
and perseverance has accumulated a ha!
ndsome property- and from his liberality in providing and protecting his
step-mother and her children when they needed it ,- deserves a long life to
enjoy it...One other act of Mr. Scott's life deserves remembering and
commendation. In 1833 Mr. Scott had in charge Horton Howards Printing
establishment. During the prevalence of cholera in the city, Mr Howard's
family and the family of his son-in-law Harvey D. Little were attacked by
the disease- and six out of nine( the number of the two families) died- (Mr
Little and two children Mr. Howard, wife and daughter barely saved). To
obtain the proper help for nurses was out of the question, Mr Scott
generously volunteered his services as nurse, and continued to do all that
could be done , for the sick , and dying, and dead until they were laid in
their graves.....Columbus City Directory 1852........