History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties. Page: 591
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HISTORY OF TEXAS. &91
county and for a year filled the position of
Deputy District Clerk of that county under
John C. Buchanan. The year 1868 was
spent in the stock business driving beef
cattle from interior Texas to New Orleansafter
which he returned to the farm, where
he remained until the winter of 1869. He
then began clerking in the mercantile business
at Lexington and for three years was engaged
at this in that town and at Giddings,
being first with the firm of More & Montgomery,
later with Montgomery alone, then
with A. Deicher and lastly with C. P. Vance.
In January, 1872, he formed an acquaintance
with an itinerant photographer, named F. M.
Hall, then stopping at Heslep's store in
Burleson county, and becoming interested in
the art of photography decided to learn it and
turn his attention to it for a livelihood. He
picked up the. rudiments of the art under
Hall and located sometime during the
summer of that year at La Grange, this State,
where he engaged in the picture business until
the spring of 1874. In February of that
year, on the completion of the International
& Great Northern Railroad to Rockdale he
came to this place shipping his tent and fixtures
in on the first regular train that reached
the new town. He immediately opened a
gallery and thus became the pioneer photographer
of the ,lace. With the exception of
a year and a half he has resided here continuously
since and has made pictures by the
thousands for the people of this locality. He
has devoted his time almost exclusively to
the picture business never having had any
other business pursuits and never having held
but one office, that being the office of Assessor
and Collector of taxes for the town of
Rockdale, which he filled by appointment and
election for about five years. He adrministered
the affairs of his office like he makespictures, according to his own ideas of how
and when the thing should be done, but his
conduct met with general approval and the
town was greatly benefitted financially by the
vigorous, impartial and consciencious manner
in which he discharged his official duties.
For what he is as an artist Mr. Scott is indebted
to himself. His advantages have been
limited and on account of the size of the
town in which he is located and the sparsely
settled condition of the country around, his
patronage has never been large enough to
permit of his purchasing the appliances and
adding the accessories which go so far towards
facilitating the work of picture-making
and rendering a studio attractive; but ini all
the essentials of the art; a knowledge of physiognomy,
the manipulation of the lights and
shades and a keen perception of the artistic,
he is a past master and will hold his own
with any country photographer in Texas. He
has never made a great deal of money out of
his business; not nearly as much as he has deserved
to make nor as much as he might
have made, had he been possessed of a greater
love for the " almighty dollar," but lhe has
made a reasonably good living; has rendered
the service which all require at some time in
life to be done-some many times-namely,
the preservation of the " human face and form
divine," and has added to the common fund
of aesthetic knowledge and the sources of refined
pleasure by the teaching of correct ideas
and the inculcation of good taste respecting
the truly artistic in form and color.
In May, 1874, Mr. Scott married Miss
Amanda Cordelia Parsons of Kosse, Limektone
county, Texas, Mrs. Scott being a native
of Utah county, Utah. The issue of this
union has been ten children now ranging in
age from one to eighteen years and about
equally divided as to their sex. Their names591
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Lewis Publishing Company. History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties., book, 1893; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29785/m1/636/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.