has a wide acquaintance in the fraternity in Illinois. He also holds membership relations with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In politics he has ever been a stalwart republican, casting his first presidential ballot for John C. Fremont. He was in Quincy, Illinois, in 1840 at the time of the Harrison campaign and saw the processions with their cider barrels and gourds and wagons decorated with coonskins, while "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" was the rallying cry of the whigs. His life has been an honorable and upright one characterized by manly principles and straightforward conduct and he has never been known to utter an oath in the seventy-three years of his life. In his business career he has been active and energetic and has never been known to take advantage of the necessities of his fellowmen in any trade transaction.                                                    __________________                                                      LYMAN  SCOTT        Lyman Scott, who for many years was closely associated with the industrial and commercial development of Pike county, was a son of David and Elizabeth (Dinsmore) Scott, who occupied a comfortable home at Litchfield, Herkimer county, New York. The father was born in 1763 and remained a resident of the Empire state until the middle of March, 1818, when he left for what was then known as "the far west." The party traveled by sleighs to the head of the Ohio river and thence proceeded down that stream on flatboats to Cairo. They had to cordell the Mississippi river to St. Louis -- that is, to go along the river bank in front of the flatboat and pull it up the stream. It was before the era of steam navigation and after a slow and tedious journey Mr. Scott arrived on the banks of the Mississippi where the city of East St. Louis now stands, the date being July 4, 1818. St. Louis was at that time but a small French village. Mr. Scott died in 1825 and was buried at Harrisonville, Monroe county, Illinois, while his widow later passed away in Naples, Scott county, Illinois. The sons and daughters who survived the father were: Lyman, of this review: Mrs. Pleuma Chamberlain; Mrs. Harriet Wiswell; Caroline, the wife of Judge William Thomas, of Jacksonville, Illinois; Mrs. Louisa Reeve; Mrs. Lucy D. Wills; Mrs. Phinelia B. Gorbutt, who afterward married George T. Purkett; and Lodema H. Scott, who was born February 7, 1818, and is still living at Princeton, Illinois.      Immediately after the death of his father Lyman Scott took upon himself the care of the family and in a short time he removed across the Mississippi river to Herculaneum, Missouri, where he engaged in lead mining, gaining therefrom a comfortable competency but afterward losing it in litigation. The owner of the mines closed them, allowing no person to mine lead. Mr. Scott went secretly to the mines and took out the ore by night. He was suspected, a survey was ordered and made, but men in Mr. Scott's employ trailed powder through the mine, snatched the engineer's papers and stamped them in the mud, after which they touched off the trail of powder which made the mine too smoky for the further work of the engineers. Afterward a compromise was effected, by which Mr. Scott realized enough to purchase the farm between Rockport and Atlas on sections 17, 20, 21, 28, 29 and 30 in Atlas township, which is still known to the older residents as the Scott farm, although it has been divided and is now owned by several parties.      About this time Mr. Scott was married to Charlotte E. Ross, a daughter of Captain Leonard Ross, who won his title by service in the war of 1812, and he came to Pike county about 1850. In the years 1832 he built the large brick house on the Scott farm, now owned by Charles Gay.      Mr. Scott was the leading pork packer in Pike county at an early day and was also engaged in merchandising. In the year 1836 he laid out the town of Rockport and the same year in connection with Colonel William Ross, his wife's uncle, he erected a gristmill at Rockport under the firm name of Ross, Scott & Company. They also built the mill dam and likewise a bridge across the sny, Ecarte slough, almost or quite on top of the dam. They likewise built a sawmill and both mills were operated by water power. About the year 1844 he built the residence of the late David W. Deam at Summer Hill for a summer residence and for a