SCOTT, SAMUEL B., b. in Minneola, Minn., June 18, 1870; was member of the State Dairy and Food Commission, 1901-5; was one of the organizers of the Zumbrota Clay Manufacturing Company; postmaster of Zumbrota since 1908.
Source:
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society
Volume XIV, Minnesota Biographies 1655-1912
Warren Upham and Rose Barteau Dunlap
Published by the Society, St. Paul, MN, June, 1912
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Samuel B. Scott, the efficient postmaster at Zumbrota, is a native of this county, born in Minneola township, June 18, 1870, of New York parentage. His father, Peter P. Scott (married to Betsy Ann Thomas), was a harness maker by trade. The parents left New York state, where they were born, and came to this county in 1866, locating in Goodhue county, where they bought 160 acres of land. This the father developed, improved and increased, until owned 340 acres, upon which he conducted general farming until his death, March 7, 1901. The mother died June 24, 1908. After receiving his primary education in the schools of his native township, Samuel B. Scott attended the Zumbrota High School, and then started in business
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life for himself as a drug clerk. In 1903 he returned to the old homestead in Minneola, which he conducted until 1903, making a specialty of raising thoroughbred short-horn cattle. He made a careful study of the dairy business and in June, 1901, was appointed a member of the State Dairy and Food Commission, serving until February, 1905. Three years later he was appointed to his present position as postmaster. Under his administration the growth of business in the office has been steady and its efficiency has been greatly increased. Mr. Scott has taken an active interest in the civic, military and industrial progress of Zumbrota and Minneola. He has served as town clerk, and as school clerk, and was one of the organizers of the Zumbrota Clay Manufacturing Company, early in 1908. He is a Republication in politics and a popular member of the Masons, the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen. With C. L. Strom he helped to organize Company D, Third Minnesota National Guard, of which he was a member for seven years. Mr. Scott was married in June 29, 1892, at Zumbrota, to Emma Barteau, daughter of David and Joana (Willet) Barteau, natives of New York state, who came to Zumbrota in 1873 and engaged in the hardware business. The father died in August, 1908, and the mother lives with the Scott family. The fruits of this union are five children – Sumner, born October 23, 1896; Kenneth W., born April 10, 1897; Lester, born December 30, 1900; Sidney B., born in June, 1903, and Russell B., born September 14, 1906. Sidney B. died in April, 1904.
Source:
History of Goodhue County Minnesota
Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge
H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1909