"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Chicago:
Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 388.
 
JOHN J. SCOTT

     Though young both in years and in his residence in Oregon, John J. Scott
has made the most of natural ability and opportunity and holds now a position of
prominence in the business affairs of the city of Albany, Linn county, where he
has made his home since 1899.  In the brief time of his residence he has shown
exceptional ability along the lines of his business, and is a man of fine
personality, winning a large circle of friends, who recognize his worth as a
citizen.  He is in the real estate business there and has every promise of a
successful career, based upon the principles which have given him his first
forward step in life.
   The birth of John J. Scott occurred in Alpena, Mich., May 1, 1875, his
parents being James, a native of New York, and Mary (McCallum) Scott, the latter
of whom was born in Ontario and died in Michigan.  The father early settled in
Alpena, Mich., building and conducting a sawmill for many years.  He later
removed to Choate, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, and there built a
sawmill, and conducted it successfully for some time, investing the proceeds of
the sale of the same in a hardware business in Ewen, in the same county.  In
1899 he changed his location to Oregon, now living upon a farm in Benton county,
which is owned by himself and son, John, the other son, Walter, completing his
father's family, making his home in Polk county, Ore.  John J. Scott was the
older of the two sons, and was reared in Alpena, where he attended the public
schools until he was fifteen years old, when he was apprenticed to learn the
tinner's trade, taking instruction in his father's store.  After five years with
his father he opened a tin shop in Ewen on his own responsibility, and conducted
it until he changed his residence to Oregon in 1899.  He first engaged in Albany
with T. G. Hopkins in the prosecution of his trade, in which employment he
remained for about a year, at the close of that period entering the produce
business.  In 1901 he began business as a real estate man of Albany, being one
of the principals in the firm of Curran & Scott, which has since dissolved
partnership, H. F. Hulburt taking the place of Mr. Curran.  The firm name is now
Scott & Hulburt.  In partnership with his father he bought eighty acres of land
two miles west of Albany, and in Benton county, where his father now lives,
engaged in general farming.
   Mr. Scott was married in Albany to Miss Nellie Riley, a native of that city,
and the daughter of Peter Riley, a farmer and stock-dealer, who makes his home
here.  Mrs. Scott was educated in St. Mary's School.  Interested always in the
advancement of his business, Mr. Scott is a member of the Albany Real Estate
Exchange, and politically he is a Republican.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2012 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.