Wallace Dutton Scott Biography


	This biography appears on page 858 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				WALLACE DUTTON SCOTT. 

	Wallace Dutton Scott, a member of the Sioux Falls bar, 
understands and meets the obligations and responsibilities of the 
profession, and wide reading and study have constantly enhanced his 
knowledge and made him more and more capable of handling intricate 
legal problems. He is a native of Rockford, Iowa, born May 5, 1875, and 
is a son of Delos A. and Martha A. (Dutton) Scott, the former a son of 
Phineas Scott, a native of Erie county, New York.  

	As a pupil in the public schools of Rockford, Iowa, Wallace 
Dutton Scott passed through consecutive grades until graduated from the 
high school with the class of 1891. Three years later he came to South 
Dakota with his parents, who settled in Sioux Falls. The son, however, 
entered the State University at Vermillion, where he pursued his more 
specifically classical course. Having determined upon the practice of 
law as a life work, he began studying for the profession in the 
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated therefrom with 
the class of 1898. Returning to South Dakota, he entered upon active 
practice in Sioux Falls and in 1901 was chosen state's attorney, which 
position he acceptably filled for four years. His professional service 
has ever been of a high character, whether in behalf of the public or 
of the individual client, and he is justly regarded as an able and 
conscientious minister in the temple of justice. 

	On the 2d of November, 1903, in Chicago, Mr. Scott was united in 
marriage to Miss Blanche G. Cahesebrough, and they have one son, 
Wallace D., Jr. Politically Mr. Scott is a republican, interested in 
the vital questions and problems of the day, in which connection he 
reads widely and reasons well. He belongs to the Kappa Sigma, a college 
fraternity, and to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His friends 
find him a social, genial companion and one whose agreeable qualities 
have gained for him warm regard.