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Born 1800, Beaver j County
From A history and biographical cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio, with illustrations and sketches of its representative men and pioneers (1882)
PROF. JOHN W. SCOTT.
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At sixteen years of age, after completing his preparatory education, to which his father had limited his school, and not wishing to graduate at so early and immature an age, he began to teach. The first year was in Eastern Ohio, and the last two years in Beaver and Washington Counties, Pennsylvania, the last eighteen months as principal of the Beaver Academy. In the Fall of 1821 he entered Washington College as a junior, and was graduated in September, 1823. His intention was to go into Kentucky and make a little money teaching, but as he was about to leave, the venerable Dr. Wylie, pivsi dent of the college, came to him and told him that it was his desire that he should prepare lumsdf Or the chair of mathematics and natural sciences, in place of Professor Reed, the incumbent at that time, who was feeble that Mr. Scott was often employed by the board to give him assistance. Professor Reed died in the course
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