The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 581 CHARLES B. SCOTT. Charles B. Scott is numbered among those progressive citizens who through the past two decades have so greatly developed and improved the Yakima valley, creating a wonderfully productive region where only a few years ago there were wild tracts of land covered with sagebrush. Mr. Scott is now the owner of an excellent farm property devoted to horticultural and agricultural pursuits. A native of Illinois, he was born in Centralia on the 21st of December, 1867, a son of Dr. D. H. Scott, mentioned in connection with the sketch of W. W. Scott on another page of this work. After putting aside his textbooks, having completed a public school course, Charles B. Scott started out in the business world as a clerk and he also engaged in teaching in his early manhood. In 1893 he left the Mississippi valley and removed to Oklahoma, taking up a homestead in Garfield county, but for two years the crops failed and thus he was obliged to face many hardships and difficulties. Later, however, he prospered in his undertakings there and after a time he became engaged in the feed, coal and grain business at Waukomis, Oklahoma, where he resided for a year and a half. The opportunities of the west attracted him, however, and in 1903 he came to Yakima county, where he purchased forty acres of land at Fruitvale, fifteen acres of which had already been brought under cultivation. He now has twenty acres planted to fruit and his orchards are in excellent bearing condition. He studies the most scientific methods for the care of his trees and has planted nursery stock especially adapted to soil and climatic conditions here. He raises apples, pears, cherries and peaches and annually gathers good crops, for which he finds a ready sale on the market. He also has ten acres in pasture and meadow land and his is one of the well developed ranch properties of the district. On the 17th of June, 1891, Mr. Scott was united in marriage to Miss Zoe Junkins, of Centralia, Illinois, a daughter of I. S. and Eliza Junkins. The children of this marriage are two in number: Sumner H., who is now a member of the United States army and has been in active duty with the artillery troops in France; and Agnes, now residing in Seattle. In politics Mr. Scott maintains an independent course, preferring to vote according to the dictates of his judgment rather than through the ruling of any political organization. He belongs to the Yakima County Horticultural Union and is keenly interested in everything that has to do with the development of fruit raising in this section of the state. His plans are well defined and promptly executed and his activities have brought him to an enviable place among the horticulturists of Yakima county. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.