- ROBERT WILLIAM SCOTT, Superintendent of Oak Hill Cemetery,
Janesville, was born in
- Glasgow, Scotland, March 15, 1844, and is the son of John
and Sarah (STUART) SCOTT. When fourteen years of age he came
to America and located in Toronto, where he remained until the
fall of 1863, when he came to Janesville, which has since been
his home. Scarcely six months had passed away, when daily reading
and hearing of the awful struggle going on between the North
and South, and with that love of liberty inborn in every human
breast, and with a heart over-flowing with sympathy for the oppressed
race in the South, he enlisted in the Union Army as a member
of Company F, 35th Wisconsin Infantry, in February, 1864. For
a little more than two years he served his adopted country as
one of its brave soldiers, taking part in the Mobile campaign
and the siege and capture of Spanish Fort. After the war closed
the regiment spent a year in Texas. With his regiment he was
mustered out and received his discharge at Madison, Wis., April
15, 1866.
- On receiving his discharge, Mr. SCOTT returned to Janesville,
and for the next two years was in
- the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company.
In the meantime on the 7th day of June, 1866, he was united in
marriage with Miss Mary Jane GODDEN, a daughter of Robert and
Rebecca GODDEN. Ten children came to gladden their home but the
Death Angel called four away, so that but six are left to gather
around the family altar. The living are James, Walter, Isabel,
Marian, Gertrude, and Luella. The deceased are Archibald D.,
Willie, Charles, and Mattie. Mr. and Mrs. SCOTT are members of
the First Presbyterian Church of Janesville, and in the work
of the Master take special delight. In politics, he is an earnest
Republican.
- In August, 1868, Mr. SCOTT received his present appointment,
and for twenty-one years he has
- made a most efficient superintendent. The tasteful manner
in which this "City of the Dead" is kept, is an evidence
of his fitness for the position. As a citizen, he is highly esteemed
by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
-
- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 692-693.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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