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t Key's Grave The Eternal Life MRS. ROSALIENE R. MURPHY. Biography Woman's Rights Only A Baby To Helen RACHEL E. PATTERSON. Biography Judge Not The Wish The Christian's Anchor CALLANDER PATTERSON. Biography God Is Great TOBIAS RUDULPH. Biography Selection from Tancred ZEBULON RUDULPH. Biography The Surprise Thoughts on the death of my grandchild Fanny The Decree A view from Mount Carmel MRS. ALICE COALE SIMPERS. Biography The Miller's Romance The Last Time Only a Simple Maid The Mystic Clock Rube and Will The Legend of St. Bavon DAVID SCOTT (of James.) Biography The Forced Alliance My Cottage Home The Mighty One The Surviving Thought The Working-Man's Song Ode to Death HENRY VANDERFORD. Biography On the Mountains Progress Winter Lines Written in St. Ann's Cemetery Merry May DAVID SCOTT (of John.) David Scott (of John,) so-called to distinguish him from his first cousin David Scott (of James,) was the grandson of David Scott, who emigrated from Ireland in the latter part of the eighteenth century and settled not far from Cowantown in the Fourth district. His son John, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Ireland, but was quite young when his father came to this country. David, the subject of this sketch, was born quite near to what was formerly known as Dysart's Tavern, now Appleton, on the 2nd of September, 1817, and died near Cowantown, on the 14th of November, 1885. All his life was spent within about two miles of the place of his birth, and most of it on the Big Elk creek at what was known while he owned them, as "Scott's Mills." His early life was devoted to farming, but upon reaching the proper age he learned the trade of augermaking, which at that time was one of the leading industries of this county, and at which he soon became an expert workman, as well as a skilful worker in iron and steel. The editor of this book has heard him remark that when he could find no one else capable of making odd pieces of ironwork for the machinery in his mills he would take the hammer and make them himself, and has also seen him make and temper the knives for a spoke machine which he used for a time in his bending mill. He and the late Palmer C. Ricketts were intimate friends in boyhood and remained such during the lifetime of Mr. Ricketts. Mr. Ricketts being of a literary turn of mind, their friendship probably
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