San Luis Obispo County Biographies

JOHN SCOTT

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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JOHN SCOTT, a prominent citizen of El Paso de Robles, was born in White County. 
Indiana, January 29, 1850, a son of Greenup and Elizabeth Scott. His father and his 
grandfather, John Scott, were both born in Kentucky. His mother was a native of 
Indiana. He was the youngest of three children, and when he was twelve years of 
age the family came to San Mateo County, California, and after three years came 
to San Luis Obis County, settling at Cambria. They purchased 200 acres of land, 
engaged in stock -farming, improving the place and continued there seventeen years, 
in 1882 Mr. Scott, of this sketch, was elected Sheriff of the county of San Luis Obispo 
on the Republican ticket, and served two years, retiring from it with a clean record. 
He then removed to El Paso de Robles and engaged in a meat market for more than 
a year, with good success, when he sold out and rented his shop. His attention is now 
turned in the direction of raising fine horses, in which he takes great delight and in 
which he is thoroughly posted. His favorite breeds are the Hambletonian and Almonts, 
standard trotters. He keeps them on his ranch, which he still retains. Mr. Scott is a 
member of both the Odd Fellows and the Masonic orders; in politics he is an unhesitating 
Republican, and in his disposition he is social, kind-hearted and liberal. 

He was united in marriage to Miss Gate Lane, a native of Tennessee, and they have a 
son and a daughter � Edwin G. and Maud � both born in this county. Mrs. Scott is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.