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 R. EDWIN D. SCOTT, a gentleman of education, and well versed in the intricacies of his profession, has been going in and out among the people of Oakland Village for the past five years, during which he has followed his profession and built up a large practice. He is one of the foremost surgeons of the county, and the possessor of a fine property including a beautiful residence and office on North Pike street, where he spends his leisure hours in application to his books, and keeps himself well informed upon current events. He is the encourager and supporter of every enterprise calculated for the moral and intellectual advancement of the people of his community, being an earnest Sunday-school worker, a strict temperance man, and the promoter of those qualities in a community which tend to its credit
and advancement. Dr. Scott was born in Como, Whiteside Co., Ill., Nov. 15, 1849, and is the son of Josiah S. and Harriett (Coryell) Scott, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. Josiah Scott was born May 18, 1819, and his wife, Harriet, Sept. 28, 1828. Both parents are still living. The father followed farming during the years of his active life, and is now in the enjoyment of a competency. The ten children of the parental household are recorded as follows: Walter H., who was graduated from the classical department of Adrian College, (Michigan) in 1869, married Miss Gertrude Wilcox, of Adrian, and they are residents of Montmorency Tp., Whiteside Co., Ill.; Edwin D., of our sketch, was the second child; Celestia is the wife of William Richardson, of Comanche, Iowa; Hiram B. married Miss Mary Jarmin, of Bay City, Mich., and is now Professor of Rhetoric and Elocution in Iowa College, at Grinnell; Eliza J. is the wife of George Baker, of Muscatine, Iowa; Alice, Mrs. Hollis, is a resident of Brough, Iowa; Freeman J., a medical student, is pursuing his studies at Sterling, Ill.; Orange M. is engaged in teaching at Rock Falls; Bertha L. is a teacher at Rock Falls, and Hattie A. is unmarried, and at home with her parents. Dr. Edwin D. Scott was united in marriage to Miss Alice Carolus, of Sterling, Ill., Sept. 27, 1883. Mrs. Scott is the daughter of I. S. and Amelia (Burkley) Carolus. Her father, a native of Pennsylvania, is now living on a farm near Sterling. Mrs. Scott was born near Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pa., April 8, 1862. She has been a successful school teacher, being so engaged for several years prior to her marriage. Dr. and Mrs. Scott have one child, a daughter, Emma Amelia, born Sept. 11, 1887. Dr. Scott during his youth and childhood spent his time mostly upon the farm, and availed himself of the advantages of the district schools. He was ambitious to learn something useful, and determined to secure an education. He worked his own way and paid his expenses through college, being graduated from the High School in Sterling, in 1873, and completed a course in Mt. Union College, Ohio, three years later. During the summer of 1876, he visited the Centennial Exposition, and afterward engaged in teaching, having charge of High Schools in various parts of Illinois, for a period of ten years. After passing a rigorous examination, he secured the State Teacher’s diploma, and now determined to turn his attention to the study of medicine. He studied three years under the instruction of Dr. F. W. Gordon, of Sterling, and attended three courses at the Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1881, with first honors of the institution. During the last year he became Institute Professor of Chemistry, and soon afterward commenced the practice of his profession after the homeopathist theory in Andalusia, Rock Island County. Thence he removed, in 1883, to Oakland, where he has since remained. Dr. Scott is still a young man, and considering his rapid progress so far, there is reason to suppose that he is destined to become one of the leading lights of the medical fraternity in this section. He is a close student, and keeps himself well posted upon new theories of practice, and has already secured the confidence of a large and lucrative patronage. In politics the Doctor is Democratic. He is President of the Board of Trustees of Oakland. The publishers of this ALBUM are pleased to present the portrait of Dr. Scott to its patrons, as one of the foremost men of the county. |
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