William
Nelson Scott was born in Houston, Va., on September 25, 1848
and entered Washington College in the fall of 1865 at the age
of seventeen. Since he had known Wood in Hardy County, it was
natural for him to pal around with him and become involved in
Wood's venture of forming a new fraternity on campus. At the
founding, Scott was elected president of the group and saw the
fledgling fraternity through its first trying year. It was Scott
who asked Samuel Zenas Ammen, who would later transform the
K.A. fraternity into Kappa Alpha Order, to join. Ammen said
of Scott, "I have never seen any in equal to him in charm of
voice, in solemnity of manner, in dignity of demeanor, or in
general impressiveness in the initiatory customs." After graduation,
Scott entered Union Theological Seminary and completed his course
of study there, and in 1872, became a Presbyterian minister.
After presiding over a parish in Richmond, Va., for a few short
years, he moved to Galveston, Texas where he was pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church for 19 years. After surviving the
Great Hurricane of 1900, that decimated the island and killed
thousands, he returned to Staunton, Va., where he remained pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church until his death, June 3, 1919.
He is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va.
William
Nelson Scott was born in Houston, Va., on September 25, 1848
and entered Washington College in the fall of 1865 at the age
of seventeen. Since he had known Wood in Hardy County, it was
natural for him to pal around with him and become involved in
Wood's venture of forming a new fraternity on campus. At the
founding, Scott was elected president of the group and saw the
fledgling fraternity through its first trying year. It was Scott
who asked Samuel Zenas Ammen, who would later transform the
K.A. fraternity into Kappa Alpha Order, to join. Ammen said
of Scott, "I have never seen any in equal to him in charm of
voice, in solemnity of manner, in dignity of demeanor, or in
general impressiveness in the initiatory customs." After graduation,
Scott entered Union Theological Seminary and completed his course
of study there, and in 1872, became a Presbyterian minister.
After presiding over a parish in Richmond, Va., for a few short
years, he moved to Galveston, Texas where he was pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church for 19 years. After surviving the
Great Hurricane of 1900, that decimated the island and killed
thousands, he returned to Staunton, Va., where he remained pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church until his death, June 3, 1919.
He is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va.