Joseph Scott

As printed in 1902

JOSEPH SCOTT.

The subject of this sketch enjoys the distinction not only of being a successful farmer but of having been a railroad man of much experience, and his fellow citizens of Knox county, Ohio, recognize him as a citizen of standing and influence.

Joseph Scott, a son of Joseph and Mary Ann (Walker) Scott, was born March 19,

1833, at Toxey, Lincolnshire, England. He attended the public schools there until he was sixteen years of age and then emigrated to America, locating first at Mansfield, Ohio. After devoting a year to farm work, at nine dollars a month, he began his railroad career with a construction gang and later became a section hand on the Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark railroad. He was employed by that road for fifteen years, eventually becoming a section foreman at Shelby, on the Mount Vernon and Fredericktown railroad. In 1864 he entered the employ of the Erie Railroad Company as foreman of a construction gang, and assisted in building the Silver Creek branch of that line in Medina county, Ohio, having his headquarters at Wadsworth. He was made assistant roadmaster at Jamestown, New York, on the division from leadville, Pennsylvania, to Salamanca, New York, and three years later was made road master of that division. Two years after that promotion he was appointed general assistant road master of the entire road, with full charge of the Mahoning division, with headquarters at Niles, Ohio. After serving in the capacity for two years, making in all twenty-five years of railroad service, he retired from that life and purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Wayne township, Knox county, Ohio, which is under a fine state of cultivation and is supplied with ample farm buildings of all kinds. Mr. Scott retired from active farm life in 1893, when he bought a fine home on the border of Fredericktown, although he still retains his farm interests.

In Morris township, on November 27, 1856, Mr. Scott was married to Miss Louisa M. Ball, a daughter of Silas and Mary (Broadwell) Ball. She was born December 16, 1829, and died May 1, 1884. February 17, 1887, he married Miss Phoebe A. Cosuer, a daughter of John and Phoebe (Leonard) Cosner. He has never been blessed with children of his own, but has reared from early childhood to manhood Charles Sloan. Mr. Scott took out naturalization papers in Richland county in 1855, thus becoming an American citizen in all that the term implies. Politically he is a Republican. Mr. Scott's father, Joseph Scott, died in England. Our subject afterward sent for his mother, who was born in Feltingham, England, February 22, 1800. She came to Mansfield, Ohio, where she died February 9, 1882. The children of Joseph and Mary Ann (Walker) Scott were: William, George, Joseph, Maria, Rebecca, Mary and John. The last mentioned lives in Mansfield, Ohio. Rebecca lives at Toledo Junction, Ohio, and is the wife of William Brooks. Mr. Scott's father, John Cosner, was born in Hardy county, Virginia, and at the age of eight years was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, Philip and Dorothy (Coler) Cosner. Philip Cosner and his wife were of German ancesLr)\ The former was boni in Virginia and the latter in Germany, and both died in Knox county, Ohio. They had twelve children, named as follows: Henry, Jacob, Philip, Mary, John, David, Christian, Adam, Elizabeth, Isaac, George and William. Left a widower, her grandfather Cosner married Eliza Dever, who bore him two sons, James and Robert. John Cosner had three children: Lovina, deceased; John L., who lives in Knox county, Ohio; and Phoebe A., who is the wife of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Cosner died February 16, 1901, and his wife, November 17, 1900.

As printed in The Biographical record of Knox County, Ohio : to which is added an elaborate compendium of national biography (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.