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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [228-229]

           NORMAN J. SCOTT, general merchant and dealer in farm produce at
        Verona Mills, was born Dec. 24, 1854 in London, Ont.  His parents,
        ALEXANDER and ANNIE (GRANT) SCOTT, removed in 1856 from the Dom-
        inion of Canada to Bingham Township, Huron County.  His father
        purchased 320 acres of land on sections 11, 12, 13 and 14. He has
        sold all the tract except 40 acres, situated on the northeast cor-
        ner of section 14.  He was a heavy loser by the fire of 1881, in
        which he suffered the destruction of property amounting to $6,000.
           MR. SCOTT received 40 acres of land from his father, on attain-
        ing his majority, to which he added 160 acres more, and still re-
        tains the ownership of the entire tract, which includes 40 acres
        under improvements and cultivation.
           In April, 1883, MR. SCOTT engaged in his present mercantile en-
        terprise at Verona Mills.  He built the store he now occupies and
        took possession June 15, 1883.  The building is 32x40 feet in di-
        mensions, is stocked with lines of merchandise suited to the local
        demand, and the proprietor is engaged in a satisfactory business.
        He handles dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, stoves, plows, cast-
        ings and extras for agricultural machinery, and he buys and ships
        all varieties of farm produce.
           He was a heavy loser in the fire of 1881, which consumed his
        dwelling, farm implements, grain and all his farm produce, -
        amounting to about $2,000.
           MR. SCOTT was married April 23, 1879, to ANN J. SAGEMAN.  She
        was born June 2, 1860, at Malden, Can., and is the daughter of
        CHARLES and HARRIET (PHILP) SAGEMAN.  ALEXANDER C., born Feb. 16,
        1880, and JAMES, born June 4, 1881, the two eldest children of Mr.
        and Mrs. SCOTT, were born in Bingham Township.  ELIZABETH A.,
        youngest child, was born Aug. 20, 1883, at Verona Mills.  The par-
        ents are members of the Presbyterian Church.

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