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- The following biography was taken from "The National cyclopaedia of American Biography,":
SCOTT, Francis Eugene, lumberman, was
born in Lincoln county. Me., Dec. 13, 1848, son
of John C. and Mary (Stanwood) Scott, of New
England colonial ancestry and of Scotch descent.
He was educated in the grammar and high schools
of Maine ami Minnesota. He gained his experi-
ence in lumbering operations under the direction
of his father, who was a pioneer in the trade in
the upper Mississippi valley. At the age of nine-
teen the son began independent logging and tim-
ber operations, with headquarters in Minneapolis,
Minn., where lie remained until 1889. He then re-
moved to the Pacific northwest, locating at Seat-
tle, Wash. The great demand for lumber after
the city's destruction by fire, led him to embark
in extensive cutting and milling operations on
Lake Washington, with headquarters at Columbia
City, and he became a dominant factor in the re-
building of Seattle. He continued in the lumber
business until his death and was rated as an au-
thority on the timber resources of the country and
the value of such properties in the Pacific north-
west. He had holdings in several states and in
British Columbia. In politics he was a Repub-
lican. Associated from his youth with the lead-
ing men in the lumber industry, his innate abilities
made him a prominent figure in the trade in the
northwestern country. lie was married at Mon-
tecello, Minn., Oct. 18, 1870, to Clara, daughter of
Philip Boyden, a lumberman, of Roddenstonn, Me.,
and left one child, Minnie, widow of Harry Jones,
of Los Angeles, Cal. He died in Seattle, Wash.,
May 23, 1917.
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The Stanwood Family
1848 - 1917 (68 years)
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