University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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To @ur Bel'otod Brothers who in the bloom and promise of youth laid down their lives for the cause of humanity, this book is respectfully dedicated

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A IS- ERGEAXT CHARLES CURTIS SCOTT of Company D. First Maine Regiment, U. S. Volunteers, whose death occurred at the Maine General Hospital, Portland. August 31, 1898, ’ j$ was the son of Walter and Sylvia (Sturtevant) Scott. He was I Y born in Scott County, Minnesota, June 4, 1876. When lie was six years old his parents moved to Dexter. Maine, where lie grew to manhood. His ancestors came to this country with Roger Williams; and his family was represented in both wars against England. He fitted for college at the Dexter High School and entered the University of Maine in the fall of 1895. He was interested in all col- lege work and prominent in base ball, the Debating Society, and mili- tary training. His college standing was excellent although he did not strive for high rank. At the beginning of hostilities with Spain he promptly enlisted. His military life had no opportunity for display of valor, but the strength of his character and his patient devotion to duty were shown under all circumstances. The story of the sufferings of Chickamauga, where Sergeant Scott contracted the typhoid malaria which ended his short life, is well known. He was buried at Dexter with military honors on September 2. Floral offerings were sent by the Q. T. V. Fraternity of which Sergeant Scott was a member. Young Scott had no element of vanity about his makeup. Quiet and unassuming in manner, ambitious, studious, thoughtful and con- siderate of the feelings of others, always industrious, these are a few of the qualities which endeared him in the hearts of those who knew him.