Mark D. Scott Biography


	This biography appears on page 698 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	MARK D. SCOTT. - One of the alert and thoroughly trained 
newspaper men of South Dakota is the subject of this sketch, who is 
editor and publisher of the Sioux Falls Journal. Under his able 
management this has become one of the most influential journals in the 
state.  

	Mr. Scott is a native of Wisconsin, having been born on the 7th 
of April, 1866, and being a son of Daniel and Augusta H. (Hunter) 
Scott. The subject received his early educational training in the 
public schools of his native county, and gained his initiation into the 
mysteries of the printing business before he had attained the age of 
ten years. In 1878 he accompanied his parents on their removal to 
Deadwood, South Dakota, and in this celebrated mining city, then on the 
frontier of civilization, he became a newspaper carrier and eventually 
gained control of several newspaper routes in the town. In 1883 he came 
to Sioux Falls and secured employment in a printing office, and in 
1885, in association with Hibbard Patterson, had charge of the 
mechanical work on the Dakota Argus for a period of six months. During 
the year 1886 Mr. Scott was advertising solicitor for the Rapid City 
Daily Republican, and later he was for six months employed on the Lead 
City Tribune. In 1888 he went to Burke, Idaho, and started the first 
newspaper in the town, but disposed of the business after six months. 
He then went to LeGrande, Oregon, where he again became associated with 
Mr. Patterson, the two gentlemen-there establishing the LaGrande 
Journal, whose publication they continued until March, 1890, when they 
sold the property. Mr. Scott continued to be identified with newspaper 
interests in LeGrande until 1892, when he came again to Sioux Falls, 
where, on the first of January, 1893, he became city editor of the 
Sioux Falls Daily Press. This incumbency he retained until August of 
the following year, when he became the editor and publisher of the 
Sioux Falls Journal, having since been thus connected with this well-
known and popular paper. Of his efforts in this connection another 
publication has previously spoken as follows: "During the presidential 
campaign of 1896 Mr. Scott issued a daily paper called the Daily 
Journal. There were sixty-two issues of this paper, and every one of 
them was filled with what newspaper men call 'hot stuff.' It was 
published in the interest of Bryan and his adherents in South Dakota, 
but when it became assured that McKinley was elected the daily issue 
was discontinued. Mr. Scott is a great news gatherer and always has 
something pertinent and timely to say regarding the issues before the 
people. He is strictly in the newspaper business and is an earnest 
advocate of economy in public affairs."  

	On the 23d of March, 1890, Mr. Scott was united in marriage to 
Miss Eva Kuhn, of LeGrande, Oregon, and they have three children, Dayne 
K, Owen L. and Norman D.