The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27


ing great personal aud professional
popularity.
DR.. Scott first came to- Kansas in
1857, and in connection with an ASSOC
ciate he built the first house ON the
present TOWNSHIP of Olathe, johnson
county. In 1858 he brought his family
to the new Territory, aud from that
time forward his life was interviewer
with the important events that made
1t possible to defeat the designs of he
slave power, and to add Kansas to
the number of free American COM
mon wealths. Olathe was the center
of apro-savery settlement from south
Carolina, and fearing for the safety of
his family he moved i'm the same
year to Alien County and settled on a
claim at Carlyle where he continu-
ously resided for sixteen years In
the fall of 1859 he was elected to the
Territorial Legislature-the first Free
State Legislature which met at Lee
compton, but soon after adjourned to
Lawrence. He was reelected i'm 1860
and chosen Speaker of the House. 1t
was during the session of the legisla-
ture of 1859 that | first became ac-
quainted with DR.. Scott. On January
Goth, 1861, Kansas was admitted into
the Union as q state, and he was elect
ed q member of the first State Legis.
lature to fill vacancy created by the
resignation Of DR.. Stone. The Legis-
lature assembled in March to elect
United States Senators and to set the
state government in motion. DIR. Up
degraph, Of Miami County, was elect
ed Speaker of the House, and DR.
Scott was made Speaker Pro Tenn. He
was called upon to preside during
most of the session, which lasted three
months, as Speaker photograph was
frequently absent from the state. He
performed the duties of the chair with
conspicuous ability In those days of
political conflict and of personal and
party interests DR.. Scott was always
calm, fair, and judicial in all his de-
csions as Il presiding officer, and he
was equally so as a member upon the
floor.
Those were days that were historic
i'm Kansas and in TIE nation. The
mighty forces of two dissimilar civil
iZations were contending for the mas
terry. The turning point between
| freedom and slavery had been reach
ed. There was no compromise possl-
Bile, no turning back ward among the
Free state men OF Kansas. There
was common sympathy and COM
mon purpose among those who follow
ed the standard of the Free state par
| ty that knew no such word as fail. |
| had sometimes differed with DR..
Scott about men and measures con-
nected with the affairs of the new
State. | was young, impulsive and
partisan, and as now see, was fire.
quently wrong. He was calm, judi
cial in his temperament, and almost
/ llE l4OOhlllE bhl uHOb lllc
national arena his great humanity led
him to shrink instinctively from the
horrors of the impending conflict, hat
when the first gun was fired upon
Fort Sumpter he at once enlisted in
the volunteer service, AMI was elected
surgeon In the regiment commanded
10y Col. William Wier. lie served i'm
Eastern Kansas and Western Nilsson
n and was instrumental in establish
ing general hospital at Fort Scott
which remained until the close of the
war. When the Bird and 4th Kansas
regiments were consolidated az ths
10th Kansas Volunteers, he became
surgeon of that regiment and served
until May, 1868, in the Indian Terri
tory, Arkansas, and Southwestern
Missouri. The services OF no surgeon
in the Union army were more highly
priced, and when he resigned on ac
count of the serious illness of his wife
his resignation was universally re
GREETED in the Army of the Frontier
But he was soon back in the army
His wife's health being restored h,
re-entered the service i'm the fall o
the same year, and after four years o
faithful work he came back to hi
farm to repair the waste places, anC
to assume in the restored Union h,
had helped TO preserve, the response
bilities of good citizenship and the OBJ
legations imposed upon him by tn,
state he loved so well.
1t was not long before the peopl,
again called him into the public ser
vice. In 1866 he was elected to tn,
State Senate. In 1868 he was elected
to preside over that body on accoun
of Lieut.. Governor Green acting a
Governor in place of Governor Craw
ford, who had resigned his Office t,
raise a regiment to defend the stat,