THOMAS SCOTT
ALVISO TOWNSHIP
Born in Chester county,
Pennsylvania, August 19, 1836, where he received his education and
resided until the year 1860, when he removed to the State of Maryland
and there farmed for six years. For a like number of years he
lived in La Fayette county, missouri, when he came to California, and,
in 1872, located on a tract of land about two miles from San
Jose. This farm, which contained one hundred acres, Mr. Scott
purchased in connection with his brother-in-law,. Mr. Cowan, two years
after when it became known as the Cowan & Scott ranch.
Besides this property, which is in San Jose township, these gentlemen
rent the Mayvern Farm, of one hundred and forty-four acres, in Alviso
township, and three hundred and forty acres of the Lick Farm,
now owned by A.Pfister & Co., of San Jose. On the latter two
farms grain and vegetable are grown to great perfection. During
the season, 1879-80, three thousand chests, of a hundred pounds each,
of berries, were exported from the Cowan & Scott Ranch, wile it is
expected that next season four thousand chests of blackberries alone
will be shipped to different parts of the country, and the different
canneries with which Scott and Cowan have large contracts. Mr.
Scott now owns fifty acres of land in Santa Clara township, bought of
A. D. Remington, of the James Lick Paper Mill tract, which is now very
promising, being only one year old, with every prospective making a
very profitable fruit farm. Mr. Scott married, in Cecil county,
Maryland, March 1, 1860, Mary J. Taylor, of Wilmington, Delaware, who
died September 6, 1871. By this union there are two
children: Lenora, born September 16, 161; and Lewis J., born June
16, 1863.
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History of Santa Clara County, California
San Francisco: Alley, Bowen & Co., 1881,
SANTA CLARA COUNTY BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
SANTA CLARA COUNTY HISTORY - THE VALLEY OF HEART's DELIGHT