Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-08-12
HARVEY SCOTT DIES
WAS EDITOR OF PORTLAND
OREGONlAN FOR YEARS.
Had Been Ailing for Months Operated
On Saturday Afternoon in Baltimore
Heart Failure Given as Direct
Cause of Death-He Was Pioneer of
West, Coming to Oregon in SO.


Baltimore, Nd, this afternoon, accord
ing to private telegram received hero
Heart failure is given as the direct
cause of death. Mr.. Scott underwent
an operation at Johns Hopkins hospital
Saturday. Following the operation il
was announced that Mr.. Scott condi
ton was entirely favorable. Mr.. Scott
left Portland July 20 to have the opera.
ton performed.
Biographical.
Harvey Winfield Scott was born in
Tasewel county, Illinois, February 1,
1888.
AS the name implies, he is of Scotch
descent The first Of his ancestors in
America came from Scotland about
1855, and landed at Charleston, South
Carolina. His parents were from Ken
lucky and grandparents from Pennsyl-
vania and North Carolina.
He was brought up on farm in
illinois. His father, moved by a mi
gratory disposition, determined to come
to Oregon and in 1852 brought his fam
lily across the plains with OK teams.
The family first settled in Yamhill
county, where it remained a little over
a year, when a removal was made to
Puget Sound, where a settlement was
made about 20 miles northwest of Olym-
pia, then an unorganized district, now
known as Mason county.
Fought Against Indians.
Here Mr.. Scott. worked in clearing
and making farm in the wilderness,
enduring great hardships and privations.
just as the settlers were becoming com.
fortably established, the Indian wars of
1855 and 1856 broke out and young
Scott for the greater part of year
was in active service in the field, con.
tinuing to render efficient aid until the
Indian disorders were suppressed.
This experience was followed by
manual labor in logging camps and
surveying and at whatever else he
could get to do. He was now verging
toward manhood and had strong de.
sire for an education, his opportunities
for advancement in this direction up to
this period having been of the most
limited and Indifferent nature.
Seeking an Education.
Educational facilities in the vicinity
of his home were wanting and in order
to devote his time to study he came
back to Oregon in 1857 and for a time
attended school at Oregon City and
Forest Grove, taking up classical and
other studies, pursuing them in his own
way and largely without assistance. To
maintain himself, he at times worked at
farm labor by the month, and at other
intervals taught school. In 1859 he
entered upon a regular collegiate
course at Forest Grove, and was gradu.
ated in 1862, supporting himself in the
meantime by his own exertions, mostly
by manual labor.
Begins Newspaper Work.
After being graduated he went to
Idaho, and for one year was engaged
in mining and whipsawing. He then
returned to Oregon, and in 1864 came
to Portland, where for few months he
was employed as librarian in the Port.
land library. He then sought and OBJ.
tanned a working place on the Ore.
gonian. Showing a decided talent for
newspaper work, he soon after became
editor, position which with the excep.
ton of short interval from 1872 to
1877, he has ever since filed