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ALEXANDER M. SCOTT, merchant, Camden, was born Jan. 18, 1851, in Mifflin township. His great-grandparents were Thomas and Mary (Wilson) Scott, natives of Scotland, who emigrated to Ireland, where they reared a family of six boys and three girls. Of the sons, James married Nancy Jamison, came to America in 1836, and after ten years’ residence in Butler county moved to this county, where he died July 3, 1862, aged eighty-three years, and his widow April 30, 1883, aged ninety-six years They had seven children: William, Thomas, Alexander M., John, Maria, Nancy and Sarah. Of these Thomas married Lucinda, daughter of John and Sarah (Becket) Snodgrass. She died leaving five children: John S., Alexander M., William, Sarah and Elizabeth. His present wife, Maggie, daughter, of David Moore, is the mother of Lucinda, Samuel Mary, Howard, Annie, Blair and Maggie L. Mr. Scott owns the old farm of one hundred acres. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

The subject of this biography entered a mercantile career at the age of thirteen as a clerk in Camden, and has been identified with the store in Camden almost ever since. In 1870 he was employed by Lysle, Bailey & Co., as clerk, and made himself so generally useful that he became a partner and general manager two years later. He is also president of the Monongahela and Peters Creek Gas and Coal company. Jan. 1, 1889, he associated himself in business as co-partner and general manager of the wholesale grocery business founded by Mr. Kirkpatrick in 1852 and at present conducted at 903 Liberty street, Pittsburgh, under the firm name of Allen Kirkpatrick & Co. Mr. Scott is an active worker in the Presbyterian Church, and for twelve years was superintendent of the Lebanon Sabbath-school. He married Margaret B., daughter of Allen and Rebecca (Bell) Kirkpatrick, of Pittsburgh.