MILES SCOTT, M.D. For a good score and a half of years Dr. Miles Scott has held an important place in this community of Robertson County as a medical practitioner of extensive and successful patronage. This county was the home of his mother’s family, for his grandfather, Thomas Gunn, was an early settler here and was well known as a Baptist preacher and one who was fortunate in the possession of a large tract of land, made the more valuable because of the numerous slaves who called him master. Thomas Gunn’s granddaughter, Martha Gunn, was born in Robertson County in 1822 and here spent her entire life, which closed in 1905. The paternal line of our subject’s ancestry was Virginian. In the Old Dominion state in 1812 was born H. S. Scott, who came with his parents to Tennessee when he was a child. Here he married Martha Gunn and became a leading physician in this part of the state, where he practiced for forty years. He was conspicuously a Democrat and the church relations of the family were of the Methodist denomination, Martha Gunn Scott being a faithful member of that church. They were the parents of eight children, of whom three are yet living. Seventh in order of birth in his generation of the family was Miles Scott, to whom this brief review is dedicated. His earthly existence began on April 7, 1854, in Robertson County, Tennessee.
The Robertson county public schools gave Miles Scott his intellectual start in life. It was under the parental roof, however, that his ambitions were best nourished. He looked to a career in the same profession as that distinguished by his father, and a medical course was therefore his educational goal. He entered the College of Medicine of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, and in 1878 received his degree as a doctor of medicine.
Dr. Scott began his medical practice at Barren Plains and has since conducted those activities in this locality. His professional endeavors cover a wide range of territory and has been one of genuine success in its healing offices. Dr. Scott has met with sincere appreciations for his ministrations and his financial returns have been of gratifying status.
An attractive and productive farm of three hundred and fifty acres provides the doctor’s his favorite diversion, for under his supervision excellent crops of tobacco are raised. His chief interest is, of course, his professional practice. He is a member of the county and state medical societies. Of religious organizations, his personal connection is with the Methodist church, South, to which the other members of his family also belong.
As a daughter of Anderson Holman, Mrs. Scott has formerly been well known, both as Miss Dora L. Holman and later as Mrs. Taylor. Additional data regarding her family will be found in the sketch of
C. G. Holman elsewhere to be found in these pages. It was in July of 1890 that Dora Holman Taylor became Mrs. Scott. She and the doctor are the parents of one child, a son named George Robert, who resides at the parental home. The doctor’s family is valued as one of wholesome influence as well as of notable service to humanity.
Source: Hale, Will T, and Dixon L. Merritt. A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Company, 1913. Volume 5.
