William A. Scott

William Anderson Scott (January, 1813 – January 14, 1885) was an American Presbyterian minister and author. Biography William Anderson Scott was born in Rock Creek, Tennessee, in January of 1813 to Eli and Martha Scott, although sources differ as to the exact date. He graduated from Cumberland College in 1833 and attended Princeton Theological Seminary from 1833-34. He began his ministry in 1835, and his first congregation included Andrew Jackson. Scott married Ann Nicholson on January 19, 1836, with whom he had had nine children. He commissioned a painting of his children, The Children of Reverend Scott, which is studied today as an example of the historical gender and race-based social structure and values of Scott and the times he lived in.