Families of Donald Scott

DONALD SCOTT, son of JULIA DRAPER DAVIS and FRANK HALL SCOTT, was born June 4, 1879 in New York, New York, New York,^{13, 245} and died April 4, 1967 in Santa Barbara, California.¹⁶³

He married (1) MARY CHANNING EUSTIS on September 16, 1908 in Mattapan, Suffolk, Massachusetts.²¹¹¹ She was born August 27, 1885 in Concord, Massachusetts,⁵¹ and died January 7, 1917 in New York, New York.¹⁷¹

He married (2) MARY LOUISE SMITH on November 22, 1919 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.²⁹³¹ She was born July 25, 1884 in Concord, Massachusetts,¹³ and died May 27, 1980 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.⁷⁰⁸ She is buried in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, Essex, New Jersey.²¹¹⁰

• Descendant Reports
  • William Scott Descendant Report (Ancestor of Donald Scott)
  • Edward Erwin Descendant Report (Ancestor of Donald Scott)
  • Jacob Clements Descendant Report (Ancestor of Donald Scott)
  • William Campbell Descendant Report (Ancestor of Donald Scott)
  • Francis Stuart Descendant Report (Ancestor of Donald Scott)
  • James Crawford Descendant Report (Ancestor of Donald Scott)
  • Timothy Hall Descendant Report (Ancestor of Donald Scott)

Children of MARY CHANNING EUSTIS and DONALD SCOTT:

1. DONALD SCOTT JR., b. October 16, 1909, Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York;¹³ m. NANETTE MARY WISE on June 21, 1934 in Studland, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England¹⁶⁹; d. January 8, 1998, Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts.⁷⁰⁸
2. DOUGLAS CHANNING SCOTT, b. April 20, 1912, New York, New York;⁴² m. (1) AMELIE SIGOURNEY on June 25, 1938 in Christ Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts^{166, 2108}, m. (2) PRISCILLA SPALDING on April 22, 1959 in Concord, Massachusetts¹⁶⁷; d. September 13, 1997, Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut.⁴²



Personal Information

• Mary Channing Eustis was a member of the Colonial Dames.¹⁷¹

• Donald Scott was a Peabody professor of anthropology and archeology at Harvard; researched the prehistory and culture of the American Indian.²⁸⁹³

• Mary Louise Smith was an archeologist with teams from the Peabody Museum at Harvard College.²¹¹⁰

Education

Marriage Announcements and News

Boston Journal, April 23, 1908²⁸⁹⁴

Miss Mary C. Eustis To Become Bride

Her Engagement to Donald Scott Announced by Mrs. John Amory Jeffries.

Society is busily discussing the engagement of Miss Mary C. Eustis, only daughter of William Ellery Channing Eustis of the Union, Eastern Yacht and a score more clubs, to Donald Scott, which is the most important of the Easter alliances. Miss Eustis' aunt, Mrs. John Amory Jeffries of Marlboro street, made the formal announcement and gave a very delightful though informal tea in honor of the event, which was largely attended. Miss Eustis, I understand, is one of the richest girls in town and rejoices in a most lavish income, while her two brothers, Messrs. Augustus and Frederic Eustis, are equally fortunate.

Both they and their father are Harvard men, and it is quite a matter of sequence that Miss Eustis should have chosen a graduate of that college for her fiance. Mr. Scott is a member of the class of 1900 and is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Scott of New York city and a member of the Players' Club. Miss Eustis is tall, with fair coloring, large blue eyes and brown hair. She has been much in evidence socially since her debut, though for two or three years she was in mourning for her late mother, who was a Hemenway. No date for the wedding has been discussed, though it will probably not be long deferred.

New York Times, September 17, 1908

SCOTT—EUSTIS.

Special to The New York Times.

BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 16.-Miss Mary C. Eustis, sister of Frederick A. Eustis, who was married yesterday in Mattapan, and daughter of William Ellery Channing Eustis, was married at noon to-day in the First Parish Church at Milton to Donald Scott of New York. Mr. Scott is the son of Frank H. Scott.

The maid of honor was Miss Katherine M. Brown of Boston. Clement Scott of New York was the best man, and the ushers were George Nichols, Henry Stickney, Holcombe Ward, Rodman Gilder, and Hamilton Davis of New York, John C. Wister of Philadelphia, and Augustus H. Eustis of Milton.

Boston Globe, September 20, 1908²¹¹¹

Miss Mary C. Eustis, whose marriage to Mr. Donald Scott of New York was solemnized in the First Parish church in Milton Wednesday noon, is the first Boston bride of the autumn whose wedding was of social prominence. The bride, who is the daughter of Mr. William E. C. Eustis, was given in marriage by her father, and was attended by Miss Katherine M. Browne of this city. She was gowned in white liberty satin, and Miss Browne wore pink net over pink satin. Mr. Scott's brother, Mr. Clement Scott, was best man, and the ushers were Mr. George Nichols, Mr. Henry Stickney, Mr. Holcomb Ward, Mr. Rodman Gilder, son of Mr. Richard Watson Gilder; Mr. Hamilton Davis, Mr. John C. Wister of Philadelphia and Mr. Augustus H. Eustis. A reception was held at the Milton home of the bride's father after the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Scott will reside in New York city. The bride is a granddaughter of the late Mrs. Mary Hemenway, the noted philanthropist, and a niece of Mr. Augustus Hemenway. Mrs. John A. Jeffries of Marlboro st. is an aunt.

The Sun, September 17, 1919²⁹³⁰

The engagement is announced of Miss Mary Louise Smith of Concord, Mass. to Donald Scott of East Ninth street and Whitewood, Lloyd Neck, Huntington, L. I.

Newspaper Articles

between 1924 and 1927

New York Times, New York, N.Y.; Sep 20, 1927; pg. 26

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Scott, with their sons, Donald Scott Jr. and Douglas Scott, of Whitewood, Lloyd's Neck, Huntington, L.I., are at the Blackstone.

Feb 15, 1924; pg. 15

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Scott have come in from Lloyd's Neck, L.I. and are at the Vanderbilt Hotel.

Jan 6, 1912; pg. 13

Mrs. Donald Scott is giving a musicale at her home, 9 East Ninth Street, this afternoon.

Obituaries

New York Sun, January 8, 1917¹⁷¹

Mrs. Mary Channing Scott.

Mrs. Mary Channing Scott, wife of Donald Scott, died yesterday at her home, 9 East Ninth street, following an attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Scott was a member of the Colonial Dames and Colonial Dames of America. Her husband is a member of the Players and Groller clubs.

New York Times, April 6, 1967¹⁶³

SCOTT - Donald, suddenly on April 4, 1967, at Santa Barbara, Calif., in his 88th Year. Husband of Louise Smith Scott; father of Dr. Donald Scott Jr. of Philadelphia and Douglas Channing Scott of West Hartford, Conn; Grandfather of Donald Scott 3rd, Jennifer, Jonathan, Nancy, Carol, and Susan. Funeral Services Private. Memorial service in Cambridge, Mass. to be announced.

SCOTT - Donald. Peabody Professor of American Archeology & Ethnology, emeritus, at Harvard University, died April 4, Santa Barbara, Cal. Memorial Service 3 P.M. Thursday April 13, Memorial Church, Cambridge, Mass.

New York Times, April 7, 1967²⁸⁹³

DONALD SCOTT, 87, EXPERT ON INDIANS

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 6 (AP)—Donald Scott of Cambridge, Mass., a former director of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, died of a heart attack Tuesday at a ranch where he had been vacationing. He was 87 years old.

Mr. Scott, a leading authority of Indians in the Southwest, was a Peabody professor emeritus of anthropology and archeology at Harvard.

He was born in New York City June 4, 1879, and graduated from Harvard in 1900. He also obtained a master's degree there.

He leaves his second wife, Louise, and two sons.

Mr. Scott started his career as a cotton commission merchange in New York, became secretary-treasurer of the Century Company, book publishers, and later was a director of succesor companies.

During the nineteen-twenties, he returned to Harvard to study the prehistory and culture of the American Indian.

He became assistant director of the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology in 1929 and director in 1932. He retired in 1948. In 1944 he anonymously established a fund for the Harvard University Press Facutly Prize.

American Antiquarian Society Proceedings¹¹⁶⁶¹

DONALD SCOTT

Donald Scott, the former director of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, died in Santa Barbara, California, on April 4, 1967.

He was born in New York City on June 4, 1879, the son of Frank Hall and Julia Draper (Davis) Scott. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1900, and then returned to New York to pursue mercantile interests, although a short time later, he entered the Century Company, publishers of which his father was president. Scott served as treasurer of the Company from 1909, until 1913. Later, he was a director of the firm. During this early period of his career, he was instrumental in establishing the Harvard University Press and was active in its affairs for many years, Syndic in 1944.

During World War I, he served in governmental bodies and in 1919, with Edwin F. Gay purchased The New York Evening Post, of which Scott was Vice-president. In 1922, he left the newspaper to turn to other pursuits.

Not long thereafter, Scott went back to Harvard to begin graduate work in anthropology, with special interests in American Indian culture. As a result of this activity, he was named assistant director of the Peabody in 1929, and received his Masters of Arts degree in 1930. In 1932, he was appointed director of the museum and in 1942. Peabody Professor. Scott served in these capacities until his retirement in 1948. Scott was elected to this Society in April of 1947, and although he evinced little interest in our work, he made several generous gifts to support it. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal anthropological Institute of Great Britain, and a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and of both the American Schools of Prehistoric Research and of Oriental Research.

In 1908, he married Mary Channing Eustice, who died in 1917. He married Mary Louise Smith in 1919, who survived him, as do his sons, Donald, Jr., and Douglas Channing Scott.

New York Times, May 30, 1980¹⁷⁰

SCOTT—Louise (Smith). In Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 27,1980. Wife of the late Prof. Donald Scott. Mother of Donald Scott, Jr. of Gladwyne, Pa. and Douglas C. Scott of Farmington, Conn. Also survived by 6 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Memorial service June 9 at First Parish Church, Concord, Mass. at 2 PM.

Boston Globe, June 7, 1980²¹¹⁰

A memorial service will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the First Parish Church for Louise (Smith) Scott, 95, a former archeologist with teams from the Peabody Museum at Harvard College. She died May 27 in her home on Fresh Pond lane, Cambridge.

Mrs. Scott was born in this town and was a graduate of Concord High School. In 1906, she was president of the first graduating class of Simmons College.

For many years before World War I she was secretary to the late Edwin F. Gay, first dean of the Harvard School of Business Administration, who became chairman of the War Shipping Board in 1917.

She married Donald Scott, professor of anthropology and director of the Peabody Museum, in 1919, and later joined her husband in European and American Southwestern excavations.

Since 1960 she had two volumes of poetry published. She was a member of the American Poetry Society and the Faculty Wives of Harvard. Mrs. Scott received an honorary doctor of literature degree from Simmons in 1978, 72 years after she graduated.

She leaves two sons, Donald Scott Jr. of Gladwyne, Pa., and Douglas C. Scott of Farmington, Conn.; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

The Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, pastor of the First Parish Church, will officiate at Monday's service.

Burial was in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, N.J.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 4, 1880132	New York City, New York, New York	Frank Hall Scott Julia Draper Davis Donald Scott
June 12, 1900130	Orange, Essex, New Jersey	Frank Hall Scott Julia Draper Davis Donald Scott Clement Scott
April 15, 1910125	New York City, New York, New York	Donald Scott Mary Channing Eustis Donald Scott
January 13, 1920124	New York City, New York, New York	Donald Scott Mary Louise Smith Donald Scott Douglas Channing Scott
May 8, 1930123	Lloyd's Harbor Village, Suffolk, New York	Donald Scott Mary Louise Smith Donald Scott Douglas Channing Scott
April 11, 19402680	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts	Donald Scott Mary Louise Smith