California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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HON. L. D. SCOTT.� More than prominent in his time as a broad- 
gaged statesman who did much to shape the affairs of the great common- 
wealth of California, and long to be remembered both for his exceptional 
integrity and sagacity, the late Lorenzo Dow Scott has a place in the hearts 
of his fellow-citizens and contemporaries such as anyone, and ambitious Amer- 
ican youth in particular, might well covet. He was born at Clinton, Ill., on 
January 4, 1847, and was just sixty-eight years old when, on the fourth of 
January, 1915, he took the oath of office as member, from the fiftieth district, 
of the forty-first session of the California state assembly. 

He grew up in Illinois, attended the public schools there, and in time en- 
gaged in farming. In that state, too, on March 28. 1878, he was married to 
Miss Florence A. Persinger, a native of Sydney, Ohio, where she was born 
the daughter of William and Eliza Persinger. When seven years old she 
came to Illinois, where she attended the Kinney High School. 

Mr. and Mrs. Scott had four children when they came to California in 
1886, the youngest two in their family being born in California, and they 
settled at Del Rey in Fresno County, which was then known as Clifton. 
There Mr. Scott improved a farm; but in 1891 they moved to Selma. He had 
a vineyard at Del Rey, but when he moved he engaged in the dairy business, 
and undertook to run the creamery which has since given way to the peach 
and raisin industries. 

Having successfully built up for the time, the dairy interests at that 
place, he associated himself with the management of the First National Bank 
at Selma and for many years was its vice-president. He was also, as a good 
judge of land values, the bank's appraiser. His discernment, together with 
his honesty and frankness, won for him and the institution he represented 
many friends. 

Called by his fellow-citizens, and with a most complimentary vote, to 
represent them in the St