Dictionary of Glengarry Biography

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====== Scott, Alexander Hugh ====== 
(20 April 1853-14 Nov. 1931), clergyman. (A.H. Scott) Born at his parents’ home, Mount Joy farm, which was in GC on the King’s Road, about four miles east of Martintown. Parents: William Scott and his wife Mary Hamilton. He was educated at Williamstown High School and at Queen’s University, where he took both the arts course and the divinity course with degrees B.A. 1875 and M.A. 1878. From 1878 to 1888 he was minister of Knox Church at Owen Sound, Ont. Early in his Owen Sound pastorate, in Dec. 1879, he married Agnes Schuyler Greenshields of Danville, Que., daughter of John Greenshields. (eight children, six surviving him) She was probably the sister of the law partner of Donald (later Sir Donald) MacMaster. After leaving Owen Sound, the Rev. A.H. Scott was minister of St. Andrew’s Church at Perth, Ont., from 1888 till his retirement in 1925. He was the author of //Ten Years in My First Charge// (1891; pp. xix, 357), a volume of reflections and observations on religious topics, with some autobiographical material, published early in his pastorate at Perth. He died at his home in Perth, and is buried at Martintown.

<tab>In 1912 A.H. Scott was described as writing “frequently for the Eng., Am. and Can. press.” (Morgan) A highly-active, well-known member of the Presbyterian clergy, he received the degree of D.D. from Queen’s University in 1918. One of his interests was gardening, and he was active in horticultural societies. He maintained a summer home in the Martintown area of GC. He was the brother of Christina and Margaret Scott, and was the uncle of the Rev. Stanley Scott. Two of the sons of the Rev. A.H. Scott suffered major injuries in World War I. The Rev. A.H. Scott was the grandfather of Barbara Ann Scott (b. 1928), the champion skater who was one of the best-known Canadians at the end of the 1940s.


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<fs small>//Cornwall Freeholder// 18 Nov. 1931, //Cornwall Standard //19 Nov. 1931, //Glengarry News// 20 Nov. 1931, obituary in //The Acts and Proceedings of the Fifty-Eighth General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada// (1932) 276-277 * Morgan (1898) 916-917, Morgan (1912) 1000, 1214 * //MDict// 752 * //Hartley// 69-80 (family history, portrait) * MacMillan, //Kirk//: index * Barbara Ann Scott: biog. article in Hurtig; her autobiographical //Skate with Me// (1950); editorial, “An Honorary Glengarrian,” //Standard Freeholder// 27 Feb. 1947; A.L. Dunlop, //SFH// 2 March 1948, on Barbara Ann Scott’s GC ancestry * article (from //Ottawa Citizen//?) on Rev. A.H. Scott, newly elected president of the Ontario Horticultural Association, //Glengarry News// 15 Dec. 1911 
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