shipmaster. He encountered many dangers incident to a mariner's life and passed through many thrilling experiences, but during all those years on the seas, he never lost a man, never had a serious accident and never cost the underwriters one dollar of expense. "Square built, hearty and strong With an odor of ocean about him," he won his popularity by his kindly, courteous manner, the confidence and esteem of the travelling public by his marked skill and mature judgment. The pioneer in steamboating along the rugged south coast of Nova Scotia, thoroughly conversant with every detail of steam navigation, he never made a blunder and his gallant ships under his skilful guidance safely carried over the billows, through fog and storm, the hundreds of lives weekly committed to his care. Children, born at Barrington: i SARAH MAUDE," b. Mar. 20, 1859; d. June 8, 1860. ii iii iv 4 : SARAH MAUDE,9 b. Apr. 26, 1861; m. at Barrington, Oct. 16, 532 COURTLAND8 DOANE (Daniel,' William,6 Edward,5 Ebenezer, Ebenezer,3 Ephraim,2 John') was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Apr. 4, 1832 and died Feb. 21, 1892 (buried in Alexandria, Madison Co., O.). He married first, Mar. 24, 1853, Margaretta Bader, who was born in Preble Co., O., Apr. 19, 1835 and died at Roseville, Ill., May 1, 1881 (buried in Baders, Schuyler Co., Ill.), the daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah Bader. Married, second, Louisa Champness, who survived him and lived at Anderson, Ind. Mr. Doane was an engineer in steam saw-mills. He enlisted in 1862, in Co. G, 75th Ind. Inf., and served until the close of the war. Child, of first marriage: 1 LAURA INEZ, b. in Preble Co., O., Jan. 6, 1854; m. at Maysville, Mo., Sept. 24, 1873, Eli B. Dixson of Roseville, Ill., b. in Green Co., Ind., Oct. 17, 1851, s. of Stephen and Amanda (Boyd) Dixson. Res. at Rushville, Ill. Ch. 1. Mabel, b. at Roseville, July 8, 1874. 2. Earl Summer, b. at Roseville, Jan. 4, 1878. 3. Ethel, b. at Maysville, Mo., Nov. 24, 1880. 4. Lawrence Doane, b. at Rushville, June 10, 1885. NINTH GENERATION. maton. 5 4 533 LEWIS SCOTT (Lucy Ann Doane, Seth B.," Edward,6 Noah, Solomon, Samuel,3 John,2 John1) was born at Glasford, Ill., Nov. 28, 1856. He married July, 1888, May Hartman. After a course of studies at the State Normal School, Normal, Ill., Mr. Scott went, in 1877, to Bourbon Co., Kan., where he spent two years farming in summers and teaching in winters in the town of MarHe then entered the Kansas Normal College and completed the scientific course. Leaving college he accepted for one year the principalship of the East Fort school after which he was principal of the Marysville school at Marshall. The next five years he was principal of the Axtel schools in the same county, where he established a school library of five hundred volumes. Up to this time he had taken no part in politics other than exercising his right of suffrage as a patriotic American citizen. Upon a canvass of the prominent educators of the county, Mr. Scott was decided upon as the man best fitted by education and experience to make a campaign, on the Democratic ticket, for county superintendent of schools. Believing that politics should have no place in the selection of a man for this position, he made the race on an Independent ticket, and was elected in 1888 by a large majority. He served two years and was reëlected, the schools having greatly improved under his wise and skilful management. At the close of his second term of service he retired from educational work and settled on his fine farm near Marysville. Three of their seven children survive. Six orphan children have found a home beneath their hospitable roof. While Mr. Scott is not a member of any church, he has taken the Bible for his guide and conscientiously endeavors to follow its teachings, and in his busy and peaceful life he and his estimable wife live to do good to their fellowmen. 4 534 GEORGE WASHINGTON SCOTT (Lucy Ann Doane, Seth B., Edward, Noah,5 Solomon, Samuel,3 John,2 John') was born in Glasford, Ill., Jan. 20, 1863. He married at Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 31, 1885, Margaret McAvoy. Mr. Scott was the ninth (477) child of Shadrach L. and Lucy Ann (Doane) Scott, and has the unique distinction of having named himself before his numerous relatives could hit upon a name satisfactory to all. Having chosen the name George Washington, he early learned to admire and imitate the Father of his Country in love of truth and right, home and country. At six years of age he entered school where he listened with delight to the recital by the older pupils of the stories of George Washington and his hatchet, Washington at Valley Forge and particularly to stories of the Indians. So deep an impression was made upon his young mind by those lessons of history that, in the summer of 1874, at the age of eleven years, he set off for the West to "fight Indians." A telegram intercepted the runaway and he returned home, where the love of his mother and kind counsel of his father soon developed in him higher aspirations. At twelve years of age he earned his first money, one dollar, by cutting corn, and at fourteen years he earned one dollar and fifty cents per day in the harvest fields. At seventeen years a desire for a better education induced his father to give him whatever money he earned and after a short time he was enabled to enter the Kansas Normal School at Fort Scott and take a course of studies. Leaving school he returned to Illinois and engaged in agricultural pursuits. In the latter part of 1885, Mr. Scott was married and started West upon a wedding trip. At Garden City they saw the destruction of thousands of cattle that had fallen before a blizzard which had swept the plains with terrific force a few days previous. Here they made a short stop at a "shack" or half-way house, where the "bill of fare" consisted of roast antelope, corn bread and black coffee, and here too they beheld with wonder that weird and startling illusion-a mirage. They continued as far as Scott City, some fifty miles distant, where they lived a short time, but later made a settlement in Greeley Co., Kan., their home being in a dug-out, or sod house, common in that section of the country. Here the drought in summer and blizzards in winter blighted their hopes, and here amid the wild, strange scenes of western life their first child, Ralph, was born. After two years of hardship endured in a life on the prairie, Mr. Scott removed with his wife and son to the village of Tribune, Kan., and entered for a time with much success into the real estate and loan business, which at that time was "booming." Later, closing his business, he returned to Illinois and settled on a farm in Glasford. Mr. Scott has travelled much in the West, made the ascent of Pike's Peak, visited Niagara |