ALBERT D. SCOTT, a representative business man and leading grocer of Monongahela, is of Irish ancestry. His grandfather, James Scott, was born in Ireland, where he followed farming, and came to America when about twenty-five years of age. He and his wife (who was formerly a Miss Scott, a native of Scotland) first settled on a farm in Maryland, and in 1800 came to Pennsylvania, locating on a wild tract of land in Carroll township, Washington county. They afterward moved to Millsborough, same county, where they died, leaving the following children: John, Alexander, William, Joseph, James, Robert, Elmer, Nancy and Rebecca. John Scott, son of James, was born in 1798, in Elkton, Md., and in 1800 was brought by his parents in a pack-saddle to Washington county, Penn. He received his early education in the schools of Washington county, then learned the shoemaker's trade. In early manhood he was married to Miss Hannah Davis, of Ohio, and children as follows were born unto them: John Davis, Mary Jane, James Alexander, Lucinda, Hannah Louisa, Nancy Ann, Albert D., Amanda, Rebecca and Cassandra. For his second wife he was married to Mary Hazelett, but she bore him no children. After his marriage Mr. Scott followed teaming from Baltimore, often using six-horse teams, and also worked at his trade, proving an enterprising man. In his political opinion he voted with the Democratic party; in religous faith he was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He died in 1890. Albert D. Scott was born April 4, 1845, on the home place in Washington county, where his school days were passed. in 1867 he began business for himself with D. H. Willams in the butchering line, which he continued to follow for ten years, and in 1868 opened the grocery establishment whch he has since conducted at Monongahela, having won success by untiring industry. On December 15, 1869, he married Rebecca, daughter of Upton Ammon, a resident of Monongahela, Penn., and they have five children, namely: Anna, Mary, Tracy, Judson and John.

Text taken from page 775 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed March 1999 by Jean Suplick Matuson of Plano, TX as part of the Beers Project. Published March 1999 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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