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Scott Ferris, of English descent, was born in the town of Mount Morris, Livingston Co., N. Y., in the year 1842. His father, Lewis G. Ferris, was a successful physician and surgeon of the allopathic school of medicine, who married Miss Sophronia Holmes, of Avoca, Steuben Co., N. Y., and soon moved to Livingston County, where he died of typhoid fever at the early age of thirty-six years. Scott Ferris received a good commonschool education, lived on a farm in Nunda, Livingston Co., N.Y., till the age of twenty-five, when he married Annie M. Thorp, of Granger, Allegany Co.. N. Y., and moved to Southwest Missouri in the winter of 1866-67, where he took a homestead of eighty acres, three miles south of Neosho, the county seat of Newton County, and has since added 200 acres to his farm. Four children bless their home: Thomas, Elizabeth, Scott and Harriett. Mr. Ferris and wife have always taken a lively interest in public affairs, and both are warm Prohibitionists. Having lived on the same farm for twenty-two years in the migratory West, it shows the substantial character of the Ferris family.