BIO:  G. W. SCOTT, Freedom 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, Page 416

G. W. SCOTT, farmer and stock-grower, P.O. Gettysburg, was born in Freedom 
Township, on the farm where he now resides, July 26, 1831, a son of William M. 
and Jane (Kerr) Scott, natives, respectively, of Adams and Fulton Counties.  The 
father, who was a farmer, of Scotch-Irish descent, reared a family of seven 
children, four of whom survive, and of whom G. W. is the third.  Our subject was 
reared on the farm, educated at the country schools, and from youth up has 
followed agricultural pursuits.  In 1863 he married Florinda Jane, daughter of 
E. R. A. Moor, a farmer, of Scotch-Irish descent.  To Mr. and Mrs. Scott eight 
children were born, five of whom survive:  William L., Mary M., Harvey A., Jane 
K. and Hugh J.  Mr. and Mrs. Scott are members of the Presbyterian Church.  He 
has served his township as assessor, tax collector and school director.  He is a 
Republican in politics.  In 1863 he enlisted in the Twenty-first Pennsylvania 
Cavalry; enlisted a second time, and served until the close of the war in 
Company E, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry, and was present when Gen. Lee 
surrendered.  For several years Mr. Scott was an active member of the I. O. O. 
F.  He is the owner of a farm of 180 acres, where he still resides.