Samuel S. Scott

Birth Date

1820-12-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Boone County, Kentucky, physician, surgeon, and politician. Owen County, Kentucky, native. Son of Robert M. Scott. Married to Evelyn F. O’Hara Scott in Owen County on November 11, 1845. Father of Charles O’Hara Scott, Mary L. Scott, Robert A. Scott, and John Scott. Graduated from the medical department at Transylvania University in 1842. Physician in Boone County in 1850. Studied at the Medical College of Ohio in 1853. Member of the Jeffersonian Democratic Party and Whig Party. Physician in Boone County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Boone County in 1860. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from August 1, 1861, to 1862. Served in a Bowling Green hospital under Dr. David Yandell in 1861. Served in Major Phifer’s Arkansas Cavalry (C.S.A.) as a surgeon in 1861. Member of the Council of Ten in the provisional government of Kentucky. Served in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) as a surgeon from November 26, 1862, to 1865. Served as medical director for the Department of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee. Served under General John C. Breckinridge in North Carolina until he surrendered in June 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, District No 2, p. 170B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, Florence District, p. 24.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, Florence District, p. 2 of 3 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, Walton District, p. 263B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Owen County Marriages, 1819-1941, Film #001943448, p. 755.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 74 and 596.
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 670-671.
Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.
KYR-0004-033-0001.

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