Frank Hall Scott, President of the Century Company, with which company he had been actively connected for more than forty-two years, died at his home, 37 West Tenth Street, yesterday morning. Mr. Scott's death was unexpected, for he had been ill but a short time, and his illness was not considered serious until the very end.
Mr. Scott, who was one of the most widely known men identified with the publishing business in this country, was born in Terre Haute, Ind., sixty-four years age, the son of William Clement and Maria Francis Crawford Scott. He was educated in the public schools of Richmond, Ind., and at the Pennsylvania Military Academy. After his graduation from the last-named institution Mr. Scott was for a short while in business in Indiana, and in 1870 he came to New York, where he immediately became identified with the publishing business.
His New York career began with the acceptance of a responsible position in the business department of Scribner & Co., who at that time were about to launch the old Scribner's Monthly. Eleven years later, in 1881, the name of that publication was changed to The Century, and Mr. Scott became the treasurer of the Century Company. Throughout his early career with the old Scribner's and The Century, Mr. Scott was the business adviser and the confidant of the late Roswell Smith, the President of the company. When Mr. Smith died, in 1893, Mr. Scott became his successor as the head of the Century Company.
In 1894 Marietta College conferred the degree of L. H. D. on Mr. Scott. Mr. Scott was one of the founders of the Aldine Association and served a term as President of that association. He was also a member of the American Publishers' Association, of which association he was a Director and ex-Vice President. His clubs were the Century and the Players'.
In 1878 Mr. Scott married Miss Julia Draper Davis of Boston, who, with their two sons, survives him. One of his sons is Donald Scott, the treasurer of the Century Company, and the other is Clement Scott, a lawyer of Hartford, Conn.
NY Times, New York, N.Y.; Nov 26, 1912; pg. 15
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HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 16 -- Clement Scott of West Hartford, lawyer and a director and vice president in charge of the trust department of the Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company, died in the Hartford Hospital here this morning after an illness of two weeks. His age was 60.
Mr. Scott was born in New York, Nov. 16, 1880, and after graduating from Milton Academy attended Harvard University, receiving his academic degree in 1904 and his law degree in 1906. Shortly afterward he went to work with the New York law firm of Curtis, Mallett, Prevost & Colt.
In 1910 Mr. Scott came here and joined the firm of Perkins, Wells Scott. Many years ago he went actively into banking and became interested in civic and educational affairs.
Mr. Scott was a member of the Hartford Finance Board in 1932 and was a trustee of the Connecticut College for Women, the Kingswood School, Avon-Old-Farms School, Pope, Brooks Foundation, the Hartford School of Music, the New England Home for Crippled Children, the Bushnell Memorial Hall Corporation and the Hartford Visiting Nurses Association. He was a member of the Hartford Club and the Hartford Field Club.
He leaves a widow, Mrs. Henrietta Collins Howe Scott; and three children, Miss Marjorie Howe Scott, Clement Scott Jr. and Mrs. William C. Mueller, Wilson, Wyo.
A funeral service will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Center Community Church here. Interment will be at the Cedar Hill Cemetery.
New York Times, New York, N.Y.; Sep 17, 1941; pg. 23
SCOTT - Donald, suddenly on April 4, 1967, at Santa Barbara, Calif., in his 88th Year. Husband of Louise Smith Scott; father of Dr. Donald Scott Jr. of Philadelphia and Douglas Channing Scott of West Hartford, Conn; Grandfather of Donald Scott 3rd, Jennifer, Jonathan, Nancy, Carol, and Susan. Funeral Services Private. Memorial service in Cambridge, Mass. to be announced.
SCOTT - Donald. Peabody Professor of American Archeology & Ethnology, emeritus, at Harvard University, died April 4, Santa Barbara, Cal. Memorial Service 3 P.M. Thursday April 13, Memorial Church, Cambridge, Mass.
New York Times, April 1967
BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 16.— Miss Mary C. Eustis, sister of Frederick A. Eustis, who was married yesterday in Mattapan, and daughter of William Ellery Channing Eustis, was married at noon to-day in the First Parish Church at Milton to Donald Scott of New York. Mr. Scott is the son of Frank H. Scott.
The maid of honor was Miss Katherlne M. Brown of Boston. Clement Scott of New York was the best man, and the ushers were George Nichols, Henry Stickney, Holcombe Ward, Rodman Gilder, and Hamilton Davis of New York, John C. Wister of Philadelphia, and Augustus H. Eustis of Milton.
New York Times, New York, N.Y.; Sep 17, 1908; pg. 7
SCOTT-HOWE. — On Wednesday, May 6, 1908, at the Centre Church, Hartford, Conn., by the Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, D. D., Henrietta Collins, daughter of Daniel R. Howe, to Clement Scott.
NY Times
Announcement has been received from England of the marriage on June 21 of Miss Nanette Mary Wise, daughter of Commander Alfred S. Wise and Mrs. Wise of Swanage, Dorset, England, to Donald Scott Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Scott of Lloyd Neck, Huntington, L. I. The ceremony was performed by Canon John H. Jaques at the Church of St. Nicholas in Studland, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset.
Miss Joan Wise was her sister's only attendant. Douglas C. Scott was best man for his brother.
The bride attended school at Twickenham, a London suburb. Mr. Scott was graduated from Harvard in 1930 and has been attending the University of London for the last two years.
NY Times, July 9, 1934
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HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 19, — Mr. and Mrs. Clement Scott of this city have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Henrietta Atwood Scott, to William Mueller of Vienna and Munich. Miss Scott was graduated from the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., and spent last year studying in Germany. She is about to return to Vassar College for her senior year.
New York Times, New York, N.Y.; Sep 20, 1937
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HARTFORD, Conn., April 5 — Mrs. Clement Scott of West Hartford has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Marjorie Howe Scott, to Leete Parmelee Doty, son of Mrs. Raymond J. Doty of West Hartford.
Miss Scott attended the Oxford School in Hartford and is a graduate of Vassar College. She is a member of the Junior League and the Cotillion Club. Mr. Doty was graduated from the Ashville School in North Carolina and from Yale University.
NY Times; April 6, 1942
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 1 — Miss Marjorie Howe Scott, daughter of Mrs. Clement Scott of this place and the late Mr. Scott, was married to Leete Parmelee Doty, son of Mrs. Raymond J. Doty, also of West Hartford, and the late Mr. Doty today in Gross Memorial Chapel of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church by the Rev. Dr. Russell J. Clinchy. Mrs. Albert O. Wilson, Jr., sister of the bridegroom, was matron of honor. Harrison P. Doty of Tuckahoe, N. Y., was best man for his brother.
NY Times; August 2, 1942
