Elisha Challen Scott
|--------Alexander SCOTT (1762, VA - 1844, Indiana)
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|---------Alexander SCOTT (1792, Kentucky - 1878, Indiana)
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| |--------Sarah BOYD (1760, VA - 1840)
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|------Elisha SCOTT (1822, Indiana - 1862, Iowa)
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| | |--------William WATT (1760, Scotland - 1839, Ohio)
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| |---------Unity R. WATT (1800, North Carolina - 1878, Indiana)
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| |--------Rebecca (1772, Virginia - 1852, Indiana)
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Elisha Challen SCOTT (1861, Iowa - 1927, Iowa)
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| |--------James MATTHEWS (1779, Virginia - 1837, Indiana)
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| |---------Tunstal Quarles MATTHEWS (1807, Kentucky - 1878, Nebraska)
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| | |--------Margaret REED (1784 - 1824, Ohio)
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|------Ruth MATTHEWS (1831, Indiana - 1917, Iowa)
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| |--------Adonijah MORGAN (1755, VA - 1827, Indiana)
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|---------Jane Chlo MORGAN (1807, Kentucky - 1837, Indiana)
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|--------Isabelle Jean MCMAHON (1765, Scotland - 1829, Indiana)
In 1903 (the year Josepha died) Elisha still lived in Maxwell and was president of the Elimino Medicine Company, which was then at 117 Locust Street in Des Moines. Apparently, Elimino was some type of patent medicine company, selling ``home remedies for rheumatism and associated disorders'' with the slogan ``Eliminatum, Elimino, and Eliminets. Satisfaction or Money Back.'' By 1904, Elisha C. had moved to 1009 26th Str. in Des Moines. By 1917 he and the company had moved to 1332 26th Street. For a period, 1934 at least, his daughter Emma J. was running Elimino (after Elisha C.'s death).
A biography of his daughter Inez says that Elisha moved to Des Moines just after Josepha died. One reason for the move was so his children could attend Drake University. Ada would have been turning 18 in 1904. All five children did attend Drake.
Elisha followed his father's and grandfather's footsteps of involvement in the Christian church. In the August 29, 1891 Christian Standard, he expresses thanks for the loan to the Church at Maxwell, Iowa. Elisha was also an officer of the University Church of Christ of Des Moines.
At least a few examples of Elisha C.'s writings have survived, including his mother's obituary, and a letter or two. It also seems likely he wrote his wife's obituary. I comment on this only because it was a very distinctive style. His writing was very descriptive and what I can only call ``preacher-like.'' I will here quote from his description of the burial of his father, taken from his mother's obituary: The body was lowered by kind hands to its resting place and the young widow, too crushed by her grief to weep, turned with her five fatherless children back to the prairie to face the unknown future.
A notice of Elisha's death also appeared in the April 1927 issue of the Christian Church publication World Call, page 53.
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When he left Maxwell, I believe Elisha C. and his mother donated his doctor's office to the Christian Church in Maxwell. A Maxwell centennial book states, ``Also in the year 1904, through the generosity of Dr. E. C. Scott and his mother, Mrs. Ruth Bates, the church received clear title to the property just to the north of the church. The building on this lot had formerly been the Doctor's office, but was used as the parsonage for the Roberts family.''
Elisha's middle name might have come from James Challen, a prominent Christian minister in the 19th century.
There is a ``Harriet P. Macy 1882-1968'' buried with Elisha and his wife Josepha and daughters. Harriet's stone is just the same style as the Scotts'.
Sources for this individual: @S110@ @S111@ @S112@ @S113@ @S114@ @S95@ @S105@ @S115@ @S116@ @S1748@
