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Isaac Webb Scott (Louisville, Kentucky, physician, lieut col 5th KY Cav USA, and state surgeon general)

b. 1826-06-26 d. 1913-04-11

Louisville, Kentucky, physician, soldier, and state surgeon general. Chillicothe, Ohio, native. Son of Lucy Webb. Married Mary Buchannan in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 30, 1857. Father of Lucy Scott, Mary Scott, and Anna Scott. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1850. Physician in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Physician in Louisville in 1860. Employed Johana Ryan and Sallie Malone as domestic servants in Louisville in 1860. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel from March 1862 to March 1863. Appointed surgeon general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in September 1863.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 213A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward Louisville, p. 73.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0057.

Maysville Weekly Bulletin (Maysville, Kentucky) 15 October 1863.

“Deaths,” The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 60 (May 3, 1913), p. 1376.

Find A Grave, "Dr Isaac Webb Scott (1826-1913)," Memorial #8889294, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8889294# (accessed on June 15, 2018).

Citation

Scott, Isaac Webb. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209768 (November 12, 2026).

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