California Biographies Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from its earliest settlement to the present time. Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M. The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905 Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176 CARROLL CARROLLTON SCOTT. The life which this narrative sketches began at Holliday's Cove, Brooke county, W. Va., November 28, 1836, and closed at Fresno, Cal., May 25, 1903. Peter Scott, a native of Pennsylvania, lived for some years upon a farm in Brooke county, then a part of Virginia. From there in 1844 ne removed to the vicinity of Sandusky, Ohio, where he and his wife, Susanna Speilman, a native of Maryland, passed the closing years of their lives. One of their sons, D. S. Scott, is a resident of Woodland, Cal. ; another, O. L., is a lumber manufacturer at Pinos Altos, N. M., and a daughter, Mrs. P. S. Ginn, makes her home in Los Angeles. Among their other children was a son, Carroll Carrollton, who was twelve when the family settled in Ohio. After graduating from Antioch College in 1856 he engaged in teaching school for three years and then crossed the plains to California, arriving at Grass Valley in the fall of 1859. In early days he participated in two Indian campaigns in Inyo and Mono counties, and was also a participant in the stormy scenes incident to the Civil war. In Mono county he served as superintendent of schools and as county supervisor. From there he moved to Woodland, Yolo county, where he followed the brickmason's trade and built up a large contracting business. In 1887 he moved to Selma, where he had the contract for most of the masonry work in the town. From 1895 until his death he made Fresno his home, and here was a charter member of the first international bricklayers' union organized in the state. While living in Woodland he was an active worker in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. While residing in Grass Valley he joined the first company of state militia. In religion he was connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. The marriage of C. C. Scott was solemnized at Woodland. January 5, 1868, and united him with Mrs. Myra A. (Stoddard) Burton, who was born at Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, being a daughter of Thomas Adams and Jane (Cochran) Stoddard, natives respectively of Connecticut and Rockland, N. Y. Among fourteen children, nine of whom came to California, six daughters and one son are still living, Mrs. Scott being the eldest surviving daughter. Her father, who was a cousin of John Q. Adams, was reared principally in Boston until thirteen years of age and was orphaned when only nine. After his marriage in New York he removed to Pennsylvania, where two sons and two daughters were born. His next home was at Millersburg, Ohio, where he fol- lowed farm pursuits in addition to stone cutting. Later he became a pioneer at Lafayette Grove, Ogle county, III, and next settled in Oregon, Ill. During July of 1853 he drove to Iowa with ox- teams and spent the winter at Newton, Jasper county, where his two daughters were married. In April of 1854 he started across the plains for Oregon, but while en route changed his plans and came to California, arriving in Yuba county September 10, 1854. For some years he followed the business of stone-cutter and contractor, and finally retired from active pursuits to Woodland, Yolo county, remaining there until his death, at the age of seventy-seven years. During much of his active life he was an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he was a Re- publican and fraternally held membership with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife, who was a daughter of Rev. William Cochran, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in Shasta county, Cal., January 4, 1870, after having been an invalid for thirty-three years. Born in April, 1836, Mrs. Scott was only a few months old when her parents removed to Illinois in January of 1837. Her first marriage was solemnized in Newton, Iowa, March 23, 1854, and united her with Andrew H. Springer, a native of Indiana and a cousin of Hon. John G. Springer, of Illinois. While the family were traveling to the west Mr. Springer died on the 4th of July, 1854, of mountain fever, and was buried at Ham's Fork, of Bear river. In De- cember, 1855, Mrs. Springer became the wife of Rev. J. W. Burton, who was born in Broome county, N. Y., February 26, 1823, and at ten years of age removed to Pennsylvania. At sixteen he was converted, at twenty licensed to preach and a year later admitted to the Wisconsin conference. In 1847 ne was transferred to the Rock river conference in Illinois. After coming to California in 1 8 So he worked at mining for a time, but in September, 1856, was admitted to the California conference and afterward labored in the conference of northern California, his last pastorate be- ing at Woodland, where he died March 17, 1864. He was a consecrated man, a devoted pastor and loyal to the cause of Christianity. Of his mar- riage to Mrs. Springer four children were born, namely : Thomas H. Burton, a brick contractor, and vice-president of the Bricklayers' Union at Fresno ; Frank A., also a brick contractor ; Retta J., who died at Woodland; and Lida E., Mrs. Weeks, a resident of Fresno. By her first marriage Mrs. Scott has a daughter, Mary Alice, who is the widow of George Banks, of San Francisco. Her union with Mr. Scott resulted in the birth of seven children, namely: Edwin Carrollton, who died at nineteen months ; William Stoddard, of Fresno ; Eddith Parthenia, wife of G. M. Crawford, of Fresno; Fred Carroll, an attorney of Fresno ; Chancellor Hollis, a brick contractor with his brother, William S. ; Elmer Leslie, who died at five months ; and Delia Gertrude, who resides with her mother.