John M. Scott was born in Greensboro, Vermont, in 1798, and came to Lyndon in the summer of 1838. In 1819 he married Miss Chloe Wood, who was born in 1796, in Orleans county, Vermont. The following have been their children: Elizabeth, Edward Payson, Finette, and Mary T.

Elizabeth married Gaius Howard, June 3, 1846, and died at LaSalle, Illinois, in 1856. Her remains were interred at Lyndon. Finette graduated at Dr. Thrall's Medical College, in New York, and practiced medicine at Waterbury, Connecticut, for a time, and about 1858 married Dr. Thomas T. Seeyle, brother of Prof. Seeyle, formerly member of Congress from Massachusetts. They have since resided at Cleveland, Ohio, and conduct a large water cure establishment at that city. Mary T. has been a successful teacher at Fulton, Sterling, and other points in this county, and for the past six years has been a teacher in the Morrison public schools. Edward P. became a thoroughly educated gentleman, graduating with high honors at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, and at the Hamilton Theological Seminary, New York. Upon leaving the latter institution he was ordained as a minister in the Baptist denomination, and sent as a missionary to Assam, India, where he remained six years. At the end of that time, owing to the failing health of his wife, he got leave of absence and returned home, staying, however, only a year, and then went back, and died at his post, May 18, 1869, of Asiatic cholera.

John M. Scott has resided with his daughter, Mrs. Seeyle, at Cleveland, Ohio, for a number of years. Mrs. Scott died in September, 1850.

Bent & Wilson History 1877