Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-07-14
BISHOP SCOTT
Death Of the Venerable BIshOD
Yesterday MOrnIng-Hs Life,
Education and Career.

AOEmAnS-HS IL o
Education and Career.
Bishop Levi Scott, D. D., died at his
residence, near Odessa, Del yesterday
morning at 935 o'clock, b the 7gt6
year OF his age. Though ais friends
all over the United States, for he was
known and loved everywhere. looked
daily for his death, knowing that he
was very much afflicted, he news of
his death will still come with consider
aole force and be received Nch unfeign.
ed regret.
Having reached the rip age of 70
years, far beyond the age USUALLY at.
talned by hard working ministers of
the Gospel, 1t could not reasonably be
expected that he could have lived much
longer, His work was dine and he
calm y awaited the call of his Master,
having called upon Rev. Charles Hill
'and others familiar with Distop Seott's
life we are enabled to lay before our
readers the following succilct sketch.
tracing MIN from the crSdle TO the
grave:
Bishop Scott was the senior Bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church of the
United States, body of Christians
leaulng all others in numerical force
and exerting almost unbounded influ-
enCe.
lie was born at Cantwel's Bridge now
called Odessa, New Castle County Della. |
ware, October 11th. 1902. Had he lived |
until the llth of October next he would |
nave scored 80 years and have become
an octogenarian minister in the gospel.
Lhomas Scott, the father of the Bish-
'p was OF Irish descent, but native of
lie peninsula and was also a minister
n the Philadelphia Conference, being
admitted when the Bishop his son was
'nly nine months old. Thomas Scott
lied the first year Of his probltionship
vhlle serving on the Queen Anne's
ircuit. The Bishops mojher was
lamed March and was native of X emf
jounty, Maryland.
His instructions were in the direC-
ion of mechanics and though not until
fter years he found bis right calling
is skill with tools served him a good
urpose on his farm. The Bishop never
.ad any other education in early life
han that which the common public {
chools afforded and which consisted of t
eading, writing and arithmetic which |
'ere very inditferently taught in those i
avs. When he was 20 years of age he {
lund himself even very poor reader. q
Le had always given evidences of 1
5llglous instruction but it was not un. I
he had attained his goth year that /
was converted, at prayer meeting +
ED at Fieldsboro, Delaware, pear i
here he afterwards settled and lived. a
After her husbands death Mrs. Scott t
sing lady Of great energy and strong b
i'll purpose, undertook the raising of Il
er fatherless children, and in short
me she had not only the satisfaction n
paying off the mortgage on this farm f
1t in few years was enabled to en-.
rye the farm by new purchases. She
ed on the farm in 1848, aged eighty a
lree years. II
The Bishop was the youngest of three I
lldren and he spent his youthful
'ys in helping his mother and bro.
ers to fish in the spring and to cult.
'te the farm the balance of The year.
8 was of feeble frame aud conse- s
emily had to relinquish the carpenter /
Gde which he commenced to learn at ~
d. c., at the age of II land -
to learn wheelwrighting
tn his brother Thomas, but he had "a
10 to give that up. al
After that as If cognizant of his call 81
preach the gospel, he worked at the
bine" makers bench with his school
ok lying near at hand from which at
;ervals he cleaned some self taught pt
sons. Three years afterwards he Ds
- ordained to preach the gospel and Ia
IS admitted to the Philadelphia Con. III
ence, which then embraced nearly A
} whole of Pennsylvania and the VI
ninsula. He at once became an ca
nest and leading preacher and the "a
It appointments in the conference AZ
re open to him. ~
lie successively served in Talbot,
yer, ST.. Georges, Philadelphia, and
9st Chester with great ability. In
A he was elected Presiding Elder of
Delaware District, which comprised ne
whole Peninsula. In 1886 he was oa
nsferred to Franklin Street Church, no
wark, N. j. In 1887 he was ap- XII
nted to the Ebenezer Church, Phila- re
phia, and in 1889 ne was sent to St. gr
ul's Church, in the same city. In Irc
0 he was elected principal OF the
,kinson College Grammar School.
owing tired OF school room duties
sr three years teaching Greekin 1S43 I'M
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