BIO:  Abraham O. SCOTT, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 446-447

ABRAHAM O. SCOTT, physician, Fairfield, is a great-grandson of Hugh Scott, who 
emigrated from the North of Ireland in the first part of the last century, in 
company with his brother, Josiah, and located in Lancaster County, a few years 
later coming to Highland Township, this county, on a farm now occupied by 
Washington Irwin.  Hugh Scott had four sons and three daughters, and his son, 
Abraham, the grandfather of our subject, was born on the farm mentioned in 1756, 
and when about twenty years old went with his parents to what was then 
Westmoreland County, where his parents died.  Returning to this county he bought 
a farm in what is now Freedom Township, which he afterward sold, and then bought 
a tract adjoining, now made into four farms, one of which is occupied by his 
grandson, Washington.  He was thrice married, and by his first wife, nee Jane 
McClean, he had four children; by his second, nee Jane Kerr, he had five; by his 
third, nee Margaret McMillan, there was no issue.  The children’s names in the 
order of their birth are Hugh, John, Margaret, Mary, George Kerr, William 
McClean, Abraham, James and Mary.  William McClean Scott, the father of the 
subject of this sketch was born January 9, 1793, in Freedom Township, this 
county, and on the death of his father he inherited a farm, on which he lived 
until his death, which occurred August 15, 1852.  He was married, in 1821, to 
Jane Kerr, of Fulton County, who was born December 22, 1794, and died in August, 
1867.  They had five children, four now living:  Abraham O.; Margaret Rebecca, 
wife of John Cunningham, of Fairfield, this county; Geo. Washington, married to 
Florinda Jane Moore, now living on a part of the old homestead; Mary Jane, wife 
of Samuel Cobean of Cumberland Township, this county.  Our subject was born 
February 21, 1825.  He attended Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, and later 
Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, from which he graduated in 1850.  He read 
medicine under Dr. David Horner, of Gettysburg, attended the University of 
Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1853.  
He began practicing in Hunterstown, this county, but in 1855 he removed to 
Fairfield, where he has built up an extensive practice, and acquired the 
reputation of being a skillful physician.  April 2, 1853, he was married to Jane 
R., daughter of Robert Wilson, of Highland Township, this county, whose father 
was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and by this union there are nine 
children, two of whom died young.  The living are David Wilson, in Kansas; Mary 
L., wife of Charles A. Spangler, of Mountjoy Township, this county; Jeannette 
Rebecca, Jane Sherman, Clara Margaret, Fannie Stevens and Vivia Sumner, living 
with their parents.  Dr. Scott is entirely devoted to his profession, and is 
held in high esteem as a man and a physician.  He was a volunteer under 
President Lincoln’s first call for troops.  In politics he is an independent 
Republican.