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SCOTT, John, clergyman, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, 27 October, 1820. He was educated in the common schools and under private tutors, entered the ministry of the Methodist Protestant church in 1842, and has been a member of almost every general conference of that denomination since 1854. He has edited the " Methodist Recorder" in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1864-'70, and since 1879, and also conducted the "Missionary Sunday School Journal" in that city in 1852-'4, and the " Home Companion" in Cincinnati. At the same time, till 1884, he was editor of the Sunday-school publications of his church. Washington college, Pennsylvania, gave him tile degree of D.D. in 1860. Dr. Scott is the author of " Pulpit Echoes" (Cincinnati. 1873) and "The Land of Sojourn, or Sketches of Patriarchal Life and Times" (Pittsburg, 1880), and has also written an introduction to Reverend Dr. George Brown's " Recollections of an Itinerant Life" (Cincinnati, 1866), and published various discourses.
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