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SCOTT, WILLIAM, proprietor Metropolitan Hotel, Roodhouse, Ill. The above named gentleman was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1824. When three years of age his father died; at nine his mother moved to Shelby County, Indiana, remaining but five years, and at the expiration of which time returned to Ohio. William, who heads this sketch, was the youngest of this family. Mrs. Scott was a very industrious woman, who was left in moderate circumstances; on the death of her husband she struggled hard for herself and boy, who, when old enough, attended to the duties of the small farm. In his twenty-second year he was united in marriage to Miss Mahala Good, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Good, natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania. For some years after his marriage Mr. Scott followed farming. When the war broke out he entered the 100 day service, and was elected First Lieutenant of the company; honorably discharged at the expiration of ten days, as the company was organized as a relief corps for Cincinnati. Proceeding to Dennison, near Cincinnati, he became a sutler; from this point he came west and settled in Milton, Pike County, and became a stock buyer and grocer. In 1875 he came to Roodhouse, and renting the large establishment owned by Humphrey Armstrong opened the first class hotel above mentioned. Mr. S. has nine children: Sarah, Daniel, George, James H., L. D., Lorenzo, Charles F., William and Emma A.