St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-30
DIED FULL OF YEARS.
President Harrison's Vener-
able Fathep-in-LaW Fol-
lows His Daughter.
Calmly and Peacefully as the
Day Is Closing His Spirit
Departs.
He Will Be Buried Beside
His Wife in Washing
ton, Pa.
Born With the Century,
Death Is Due to Old
Age.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29-Rev. DR..
John Witherspoon Scott, the venerable
father-in-Iaw Of President Harrison, died
this afternoon at 4 :01 O'clock, at the age
of ninety-three years. He died in the
executive mansion, where he went
with his daughter and son-in-aw
when they made it their home. DR..
Scott's illness was of short duration.
He went to Indianapolis with the party
that accompanied Mrs. Harrison's re-
mains. He bore the fatigue of the trip
very well. and returned to Washington
in his usual health. Saturday,
Nov. Is, he caught cold. and was
compelled to go to bed and place him
self under doctors care.
At o'clock this morning he was per-
fectly rational, and held short con-
versation with Lieut.. Parker, who had
been sitting up wirh him. At 6:30 the
family were called to the bedside,
as the nurse thought he was then
passing away. They remained in the
room until Z O'Clock and then left the
patient, who made another rally.
Throughout the day until 2 o'clock the
family thought there was chance of
recovery, based upon the great vitality
shown by him. At2 O'Clock DR.. Scott
again
Began to Decline
and died at one minute past 4 o'clock.
There were present at the bedside the
president. Mrs. Mckee, Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell Harrison, Lieut.. Parker and
wife, Russell Scott, his grandson, and
DR.. Tennis Hamlin, pastor of the
Church of the Covenant, OF which DR..
Scott was member. John w. Scott,
the only surviving son, and Mr. Mckee
were the only members of the family
absent. Before leaving the house Dr..
HamJin offered prayer in the library
with the family.
Funeral services will be held in the
east room of the White house Thursday
afternoon at O'clock. Dr.. Hamlin will
officiate. The funeral party will leave
this city Thursday evening for Wash
ington, Pa. where the body will be in
tered Friday morning, as requested
by Dr.. Scott, beside his wife,
who was buried there in
1876, and his son, Capt. Horace Scott.
who died of consumption. Capt. Scott
served under Gen. Harrison during the
war. The funeral party will return i'm
mediately to Washington. Judge Scott
will not be able to attend the funeral,
as he has just reached his home, Seattle,
Wash, after having attended the fu-
neral of Mrs. Harrison.
The death of DR.. Scott makes the
ninth that has occurred within the fam
lily and the attendants of the executive
mansion since the commencement of
President Harrison's administration,
being Mrs. Pruden, wife of the eXecu
tive clerk, Maj. Pruden; Mrs. Scott
Lord, sister of Mrs. Harrison; Mrs.
Halford, wife of Private Secretary Hal
ford; the cOachman, the lamplighter,
who has been employed in the White
house for quarter of century; Frank
A. Cox, the telegraph operator; Mrs.
Harrison. Capt. Dinsmore. chief usher,
and DR.. Scott.
Simply Worn Out.
DR.. Gardiner, the attending physician,
saws the immediate cause of death was
exhaustion due to old age. He retired Il
week ago last night with cold, and
Thursday was unable to get up. The
cold was followed by low fever, which
greatly Frustrated him. When this had
run it's course slight reaction and rally
ensued Thursday, lasting forty-elght
hours. Saturday night there was turn
for the worse, and he rapidly sank into
lethargic state, with fitful periods of
consciousness. Notwithstanding his
advanced age, DR.. Scott had never been
the victim of any organic disease. and
seldom required the services of phys
ician. and then only for a passing all
ment. He died because the machinery
of his body was worn out.
Rev. John W. Scott was born with the
century, the date of his birth being
Jan. p, 1900, little more than month
after the death of George Wash
ington. His boyheod was spent
in the vicinity of HoOkStown.
Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where
he was born. His father was weil-to-
dotresident of that place and gave TO his
son a good education which lie turned
to advantage in his future life. He be-
came a minister of the Presbyterian
church and filled several pulpitS accept
ably, but i'll few years his voice failed
and he was forced to give up his voca-
tion- After
Teaching in Several Schools.
among them the Hanover university, in
Hanover county. Indiana; he eStab-
lished the Western Female seminary at
Oxford, o. Here was situated Miami
university, where benjamin Harrison
received the finishing touches to his
education.
DR.. Scott had five children-three
daughters, Mary, who died young;
Elizabeth, who married Russell Lord;
Caroline, who married Benjamin Harri-
son, and two sons, Henry Nj. and John
N. Mrs. Lord died in Washington two
years ago; the son. Henry. is also dead,
leaving John n. Scott as the sole
survivor of DR.. Scott's children. Dur
ing the time when Mr. Harrison was a
United States senator DR.. Scott was ap
pointed to clerkship in the pension
office, and he held TINS position until his
son-ln-laW became president. He re-
signed then and moved to the White
house, where he has since reSidedt
About year ago he paid visi
of several months to his son, John n.
Scott, at Port Townsend, and stood the
fatigung journey across the continent
without i'll effect. DR.. Scott was man
of wonderful physical vigor, tall.
broad -chested and well-preserved meu-
tally. He used to say that he believed
he was in his Drime at SiXty He was