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Scott, S W


BORN IN: Scotland
DIED: 12/19/1888
AGED: 50
DEATH LOCATION: Searsville

OCCUPATION: Physician

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  • 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
  • 1846 Mexican-American War
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
OBITUARY ---------------

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 60, Number 105, 21 December 1888 -

Died of Apoplexy

Redwood City, December 20th - S W. Scott, resident of Pescadoro, died suddenly at Searsville last night. He sat in a chair, and it was supposed, fell asleep. Upon trying to arouse him he was found to be dead. He has been a clerk in the Swanton House, at Pescadero for the past year, and leaves a widow and family residing at Rothsay, Scotland. His death resulted from apoplexy.

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