Evening star., 1924-01-03
FROM Yesterdays $50 Edition Of The Star.
NATHAN B. SCOTT,
EX-SENATOR, DEAD
Served Two Terms in Con-
greSS From West Vir-
.ginia and Was 81.
HEADED LOCAL BANK
Succeeded in Position by Son. Guy.
Whose Demise Closely
Followed.
HEADED LOCAL BAN

Former Senator Nathan Bay Scotr.
eighty-two years old. who was for
mer president Of the Continental
Trust Company, died at his home here
at the Wardman Park Hotel of heart
trouble about O'Clock yesterday after
noon, after an illness of about Ave
weeks.
Mr.. Scott was senator from West
Virginia from 1899 until 1911, two full
terms, after which he became presi-
dent of the local bank. He was sue
ceeded by his son, Guy Scott, who him
self died shortly afterward.
Mr.. Scott is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Agnes Cowgel Scott
Was Born in Ohio.
Mr.. Scott was a prominent and
aggressive republican. He was born
in Guernsey county. Ohio. December
IS, 1912. He received his education
in a country school. He went to Colo
radO in a prairie schooner in 1853,
landing on the present site Of Denver.
May 8, when the city consisted Of
log cabins.
He remained there a short time and
then left for the Gregory Lead, which
had just been discovered. and camped
on the spot where Central City now
stands. He remained in that country
about a year, when he returned to
Ohio, enlisted in the Union army and
served through the war, after which
he located in Wheeling. w. Va
Mr.. Scott was president Of the Cen
trail Glass Works of Wheeling. In
1887 he organized the Dollar Savings
Trust Company, the first institution
of its kind in the state.
Mr.. Scott was elected to the city
council of Wheeling in 1880 and
served two years as president of the
second branch. He was elected in
1882 to serve four years in the state
senate, and was reelected in 1885.
In 1888 he was selected as the repre-
sentative of West Virginia on the re-:
publican national committee, where
he served until his death. A greater
part of the time he had been a mem
ber of the executive committee OF the
national republican committee.
In recognition of his services to the
party. President Mckinley appointed
him commissioner Of internal revenue.
Mr. Scott entered this office on the first
of January, 1898, and served as COM
missioner during the period OF the
Spanish american war, during which
time he made record for himself by
the busineSS-like manner in which he
handled the volume Of business incident
to the passage of the war revenue law
ny Congress
Two Terms in Senate.
He was elected to the United STATE $
Senate in January. 1899. and served
two terms.
Mr.. Scott was thirtythird degree
Mason. having been made an appren-
tice Mason in Apprentice Friendship
Lodge. No 50, in Ohio, shortly after
reaching his twenty-first birthday Be
fore the close of the civil war he as
sisted in raising Gen. James A. Gar
field. afterward President of the United
States.
He was appointed a member of tn"
Lincoln Memorial Commission March
3. 1921.
The body OF former Senator Scott
was removed from the Wardman Park
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Guy T. Scott.
widow of Maj. Guy T. Scott, L. S. a.
The funeral arrangements, in keeping
with the wishes of the dead states
man and fnanCier, are to be simple
The services will be conducted at the
Scott residence, 1920 Belmont street
northwest, Saturday afternoon at !
o clock.
Bishop Mcdowell of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and Rev. James
Shera Montgomery. pastor of Calvary
Methodist Episcopal Church and chap
lain of the House of Representatives.
close personal friends of Senator Scott
will officiate. The body will be Gre
mated, and the ashes inferred in Rock
Creek cemetery. There will be no ac-
tive nor honorary pallbearers.