page_title: Matthew T. Scott
section_title: Later career and death
hierarchical_section_title: Matthew T. Scott / Later career and death
caption_attribution_description: Downtown Chenoa, Illinois, United States.
context_page_description: Matthew T. Scott was agriculturist and real estate operator during the 19th century. Born and raised in Kentucky he attended college at Centre College also in Kentucky. After college he spent several years tending to his father's lands in Ohio. He then journeyed to Central Illinois to develop prairie land into farmland as well as build houses. While doing this he created and developed the city of Chenoa. He also developed the McLean County Coal Company with Adlai Ewing Stevenson I. Scott also was the founder of the Bloomington Bulletin a Democratic daily newspaper. He died in Bloomington in 1891.
context_section_description: In 1867 Matthew T Scott founded the McLean County Coal Company in conjunction with Adlai E. Stevenson I. Mclean County Coal Company was the most successful coal mine in McLean County. He also established the Bloomington Bulletin which was a Democratic Daily newspaper based in Bloomington, Illinois.
  Matthew T Scott died May 21, 1891. He is buried in the city he loved and developed.
caption: Downtown Chenoa, Illinois in mid-March 2007
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