Harvey W. Scott
Born	February 1, 1838
Birth place	Illinois
Died	August 7, 1910
in	Baltimore, Maryland
Circumstances
Occupation	Newspaper editor, The Oregonian
Notable credit(s)

Harvey Whitefield Scott (February 1, 1838 – August 7, 1910) was an American pioneer, newspaper editor, and historian. Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Year 1838 ( MDCCCXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established permanent residence there often to colonize the area A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint.

Scott was born in the U.S. state of Illinois and migrated to Oregon with his family in 1852. A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. He was the first alumnus of Pacific University in 1863 and was editor of the The Oregonian newspaper from 1866–1872. Pacific University is a private University located in Forest Grove, Oregon, United States about 38 km (23 mi west of Portland The Oregonian is the major daily Newspaper in Portland Oregon, owned by Advance Publications. His editorials strongly supported the Union and the newly emerging Republican party during the Civil War. An editorial, leader (UK or leading article (UK is an article in a Newspaper or Magazine that expresses the opinion of the Editor During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the twenty-three The History of the United States Republican Party is an account of the second oldest currently existing Political party in the United States Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Scott also edited the first history of Portland, Oregon, published in 1890,^[1], and compiled the six-volume History of the Oregon Country with his son, Leslie M. Scott, who published it after Harvey's death. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers Leslie M Scott ( February 18 1878 - December 1968 was an American historian newspaper publisher and Republican politician in Oregon ^[2]

Scott died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1910. Scott is buried at River View Cemetery in Portland. River View Cemetery in the southwest section of Portland Oregon, United States, is a non-profit Cemetery founded in 1882 ^[3]

Mount Scott, an extinct volcano in Happy Valley, was named after him, as was Harvey Scott Elementary School in Northeast Portland. The Boring Lava Field is an extinct Plio-Pleistocene volcanic zone with at least 32 cinder cones and small shield volcanoes lying within a radius of 13 miles (21  km Happy Valley is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. A statue of him stands at the summit of Portland's Mount Tabor. Mount Tabor is the name of an extinct volcanic cinder cone, the city Park on the volcano and the Neighborhood of Southeast Portland that surrounds

See also

• Abigail Scott Duniway – Harvey's sister, started a rival newspaper The New Northwest in support of women's suffrage
• Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition – Scott was president from 1903 to 1905. Abigail Scott Duniway ( October 22, 1834 &ndash October 11, 1915) was an American women's rights advocate newspaper editor and writer whose The New Northwest was a weekly Portland Oregon Newspaper published during the years of 1871 to 1887 by Abigail Scott Duniway The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, commonly also known as the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and officially known as the Lewis and Clark Centennial American Pacific

References

• Oregon Historical Society biography
• Rootsweb biography
• Photograph of Harvey W. Scott statue

External links

• Harvey W. Scott at Find A Grave