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

           [183 - 184]

           THOMAS SCOTT, farmer, resident on section 23, Verona Township,
        was born in Scotland June 9, 1833.  He is the son of JOHN and JANE
        (DAGLISH) SCOTT, and he remained in his native land until the
        spring of 1857, when he emigrated to the Dominion of Canada.  He
        had learned the business of a stone mason in Scotland, and during
        the building of the Grand Trunk Railroad he worked on it one year.
        In September, 1859, he came to Verona and bought 280 acres of land.
        In the spring following, he went to Tennessee and engaged in the
        construction of the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad.  The same
        fall he came back to Verona.  He at once entered upon the improve-
        ment of his farm and now has 100 acres under cultivation.
           He has suffered the experience common to the citizens of this
        portion of Michigan in both the fires of 1871 and 1881, in each of
        which he lost all combustible property on his place.  In that of
        1871 he lost his house and barn full of farm products, together
        with farm implements, fences, etc.  The same loss, but of increased
        value, resulted from the last fire, when nearly $6,000 in property
        vanished in the flames.  He has rebuilt his house and barn, and is
        gradually recovering his former status.  He has been Supervisor of
        Verona about 12 years.
           MR. SCOTT was married in Canada in 1867 to AGNES, daughter of
        ROBERT and HELEN (BEATTIE) SHANNON.  She was born in Westminster,
        Canada, and has become the mother of six children, born in Verona
        Township, as follows:  JOHN, ROBERT, WILLIAM, THOMAS, ELLA and
        WALTER.

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