Harvey Whitefield Scott (1838-1910) - Find a Grave Memorial

Journalist. Born in Illinois, his family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, losing his mother and a brother on the route. He served in the Yakima Indian War from 1855 to 1856, studied law, became a reporter, and eventually editor of "The Oregonian" newspaper in 1865. graduated from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon in 1863 becoming that institution's first graduate.
By 1900 he had risen to prominence in his journalism field, and was named the director of the Associated Press, a capacity he served in from 1900 to 1910, He strongly opposed women's sufferage through his position with the press and editor of the paper, although his sister, Abigail Scott Duniway, was an active suffragette in Oregon, Idaho and Washington. He died in 1910, two years before women were granted the right to vote.

Bio by: RB