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Source:
History
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Combination atlas map of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio
Strasburg, Ohio: Gordon Print.,
1875
359 pgs. L. H. Everts
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BENJAMIN P. SCOTT.
Among the early settlers of Washington County, Pennsylvania,
were Josiah Scott and Hugh McCandlass.
Benjamin, a son of the first, married Susan, a
daughter of the second, and staying near their parents that
couple spent their life on the same farm where their son,
Benjamin P. Scott was born Jan. 24, 1834, and lived
until he came to Ohio in 1854, as a clerk for a country
store in Carroll County. In 1859 he started a general
store at Jewett, in Harrison County; and in the same year,
he married Christina D., a daughter of John and
Mary Shull Wirt, of New Rumley, Ohio. She died in
1865, leaving two daughters, Mary S., wife of
Albert Rippeth, a dry goods merchant of Coshocton, and
Eva M., wife of Ralph T. Horning, of New
Philadelphia, where Mr. Scott had located in 1868.
He there engaged in the hardware business, and in the
manufacture of salt, an industry that he helped to bring to
its highest development in this vicinity. For several
years he managed the sale of the combined output of all the
salt made in the county. In 1886 he was elected
Vice-President of the Citizen's National Bank; in 1894 he
became the Cashier; and in 1901 he was made its President
and so continues. For almost forty years Mr. Scott
has been heartily identified with the interests of New
Philadelphia. He has served nine years on the Board of
Education and has also been a member of the Council and of
the Board of Health. Besides assisting others in
worthy undertakings, he has actively shared in founding
The Spicer Manufacturing Company, and the Ohio Stovepipe and
Manufacturing Company, both of which are successful
enterprises of which he is President. In 1873 he was
married to Emma, daughter of David H. and Mary
Atkinson Harman, of South Bend, Indiana. This
Mary was the daughter of Matthew Atkinson,
of Carrollton, Ohio. The only child by this marriage
is Benjamin Harman Scott, now Cashier
of the Citizen's National Bank. The latter married
Alice, a daughter of George and Clara Bates Lahmer,
and their only child is named Clara. The Olin Scott
Rippeth, Teller of the Citizen's National Bank, and
Benjamin Ralph Rippeth, in his father's store.
(Source: Page 10 - ALSO photo of Residence of B. P.
Scott, New Philadelphia) |
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