John T. Scott

John T. Scott (May 6, 1831 – December 29, 1891) was an American lawyer and judge from Terre Haute, Indiana. Scott served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from December 29, 1879, to January 5, 1881. Biography Early life, education, and career Scott was born Glasgow, Kentucky in 1831. He attended local public schools in Glasgow until age fourteen, when he became an apprentice harnessmaker. In 1850, at age 19, Scott ran away from home and his apprenticeship to attend Franklin College in Franklin, Tennessee, where he studied Latin, Greek, mathematics, English, and rhetoric. Scott moved to Indiana in 1853, where he worked as a surveyor on the railroad between Indianapolis and Decatur, Illinois.