Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-07-16

after having served ministry in the
Methodist Church. His body is
buried in the cemetery attached to
the Centreville Episcopal Church, in
Centreville, Md. The father left two
other children besides Levi. The
mother, however, was a woman of
great energy of character and of
large business capabilities, and she
bravely set herself to raising her off
spring. The bishop grew up on the
farm, and had, when a boy, very
limited opportunities for obtaining
an education, going to school only
short time in winter, and working on
the farm in other seasons of the
year. At the age of 16 years he
began. much against his own tastes,
to learn the business of tanner with
a cousin, but after four months he
was induced by relative to go to
Georgetown, d. c., and learn the
trade Of carpenter and builder.
This business proving too great a
tax on his physical abilities, he. by
the advice of his medical attendant,
abandoned it and returned home
He was fond of mechanical pursuits,
and soon after his return to Odessa
engaged in working at the business
of a cabinet maker with John Jan>
vier. with whom he continued until
he was n years old.
The event upon which his life
turned occurred when he was 26
years of age. This was his CONVEX
sion, Oct. Is, 1921, in the house of
a colored man known as Isaac Carr
ter, at FieldsbOro, in meeting un-
der the supervision of Christian wo-
men. This event loosened his at
tachment tomechanical employments,
as well as to worldly pursuits. For
his trade and for merely worldly
gain he no longer evinced his former
enthusiasm, and although he still
follow ed mechanical employments
until 1924, his ardor had taken a
new direction. Soon after his con
version he felt impelled to husband
his time and resources for the pur-
pose of mental improvement.
La 1926 he adoped the profes
sion of teacher and was en-
ployed near Middletown In this
period of his life he was the subject
OF peculiar trial, resulting from a
sense of duty which had followed
INN from the first year Of his con-
version, the duty of devoting himself
to the work of the Church. His
, modesty and humility, features OF
character which accompanied the
bishop through life, caused him to
shrink from obtruding himself upon
the church. The church, however,
did recognize the abilities of young
. Scott, and the quarterly conference
Smyrna circuit recommended him. IL
the spring of 1926, TO the Philadel
phla annual conference as "a sulta'
ole person" to be received into the
itinerant ministry. He was so re-
' ceived, and from this point started
1 the career that now stands an elo
quent tribu to the man who began
a5 the very bottom.
In 1852 the general conferenc,
met in Boston and DR.. Scott wa
' elected to the most honored position
5 of the church, that of the Methods
Episcopacy. Soon after Bishop
= Scott made the first official episco-
pal visitation to the church In Lii
q IBERIA, Africa, appearing in it's con
ference as the first of the board o
bshegs of the M 18th g Has Epss0Ra
IN he annual conferences North AM
South, as well as On the Pacific coast
and until 1872 performed his flu
e share of the laborious duties OF tn
!, office which he had so long and S
honorably adorned by wisdom an
- purity which the church has neve
q, questioned. Bishop Scott leave
L seven children, among whom are tn
= Rev. Alfred L. Scott, professor III til
Wesleyan Female College, an
Amelia Jane, wife of the Hor
=. George L. Townsend, of the Della
ware Legislature. Before his dealt
, the bishop had stroke of paralysi
which partially disabled HIM. Ii
= creasing years deprived him gradu
ally of the sense of seeing and hea
- ing, so that when the final stroB