Margot Louise Postlewaite and Richard McDonald Scott Jr.

RICHARD MCDONALD SCOTT JR., son of ADELE ELIZABETH STRATTON and RICHARD MCDONALD SCOTT, was born November 28, 1894 in Ashland, Saunders, Nebraska, and died December 18, 1965 in Denver, Colorado.⁵⁶ He is buried in Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Denver, Colorado.³⁷³⁷

He married MARGOT LOUISE POSTLEWAITE on June 17, 1922 in Denver, Colorado,²⁴⁶⁹ daughter of JULIA WILLIS and WILLIAM HARRISON POSTLEWAITE. She was born February 6, 1897 in Denver, Colorado, and died October 18, 1988. She is buried in Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Denver, Colorado.³⁷³⁷

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Children of MARGOT LOUISE POSTLEWAITE and RICHARD MCDONALD SCOTT JR.:

1. JULIA FRANCES SCOTT, b. October 23, 1923, Denver County, Colorado;¹⁶⁸ m. WILLARD S. LEVAN on July 13, 1946¹⁶⁸; d. November 2, 2010.⁵⁶
2. Daughter

Richard M. Scott

• was a Veteran of World War I⁴⁴³⁹
• was Financial Editor for the Rocky Mountain News

Rocky Mountain News, June 17, 1922⁴⁴⁴⁰

Newspaper Man To Wed Denver Girl Tonight

Richard M. Scott, Jr., former state tennis champion, and Miss L. Margo Postlewaite, daughter of Mrs. Julia W. Postlewaite of Denver, will be married this evening at the bride's home, 1922 East Seventeenth avenue, by the Rev. Henry R. A. O'Malley of the St. Stephen's Episcopal church. They will leave immediately on a short honeymoon.

Scott is a graduate of the University of Colorado, where he began his journalistic training as editor of the Silver and Gold. Since graduation and after his discharge from the aviation corps, in which he served in France, he has been on the editorial staff of The Denver Times and is now with the Associated Press in Denver.

Miss Postlewaite is a graduate of the Colorado Woman's college and a member of Beta Sigma Omicron sorority.

On their return to Denver they will take up their residence at 1233 Sherman street.

Nebraska State Journal, August 13, 1922³⁴²

Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Scott, jr. whose marriage was a June event are now at home to their friends in Denver at 1233 Sherman street. Miss Scott before her marriage was Miss Louise Postlewaite. Mr. Scott was born in Ashland and is the son of R. M. Scott, for many years in business in Ashland, and the late Dell Stratton Scott a Nebraska university alumni. He is now assistant city editor of the Denver Times.

Rocky Mountain News, May 27, 1919⁴⁴³⁹

LIEUT. SCOTT, AIRMAN, HOME; BAGGED 2 HUNS

Former Tennis Champion of Colorado Served on Front for Five Months as Observer; Had Numerous Battles.

Lieut. Richard M. Scott, former tennis champion of Colorado and well-known newspaper man, returned to the city yesterday from overseas, where he has been for fourteen months with the American expeditionary force. He was for five months on the front as an aviation observer, and has two boche planes to his credit.

Scott went to Fort Riley a little more than two years ago and attended the first officers' training camp, from which he emerged with a second lieutenant's commission. Until Dec. 1, 1917, he was with the Eighty-ninth division as an infantry officer.

Hen then volunteered as observer and began training at Fort Sill. He finished his training at Tours, France, and went to the front with the French Fourth army in July. He fought in Champagne with the 135th squadron, the first unit to use the Liberty motor. Later he fought at St. Mihiel and in all had about a dozen encouters in the air with boche aviators.

After the armistice Scott was sent to Valdahon, near the Swiss border, where he was chief observer in an instruction center for aviators and artillerymen.

Altho Scott is an ardent tennis fan, when confronted with the alternatives of going to Nice for a big tournament or coming home, he came home.

As he was boarding the boat, Lorraine, at La Havre, for the voyage home, local American officials rushed down to the dock with a promotion for Scott. He came home a first lieutenant.

Lincoln State Journal, September 25, 1921⁴³⁰⁰

R. M. Scott, jr., formerly of Ashland has returned from Salt Lake City, where he was one of the entrants in the international championship tennis games. Mr. Scott entered the news paper field several years ago and is now assistant editor of the Denver Times.

Nebraska State Journal, January 21, 1923³⁴³

Richard M. Scott jr. has resigned as associate editor of the Denver Times to accept a position with the associated press. At present his headquarters are in Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Scott was born in Ashland and is the son of R. M. Scott [who] was in business there for some years and who now lives in Denver.

Rocky Mountain News, October 11, 1933¹¹⁴²⁹

News' Financial Editor Now Investment Counsel

R. M. Scott Jr., financial editor of The Rocky Mountain News since December, 1926, yesterday announced his retirement from The News, and the opening of an investment counsel service, specializing in long-term planning for investors in the Denver territory.

The service offered, Scott announced, will follow methods employed by investment counsel organizations in New York and Boston, where the profession has developed rapidly over the last 10 years.

These organizations, while stressing the need for careful selection of individual securities, attach equal importance to the balancing of different types of holdings to afford protection against changes in industrial, financial and general economic trends. They also emphasize the value of close personal contact between counsel and clients in order that investment programs may be worked out to suit the needs of the individual.

One of the New York organizations, in a recently published statement, declared that while the long-term point of view should always be paramount, this by no means implies the idea of permanency in any investment. The statement added that every security, however impregnable it may seem, must be continuously studied and re-evaluated in the light of changing economic and business conditions.

Scott's term as financial editor of The News covered the long prosperity era culminating in 1929, the depression and bear market reaching a low point in the summer of 1932, and the irregular recovery of the last year. From 1924 to the end of 1926 he served as industrial commissioner of the Denver Chamber of Commerce, conducting statistical research to determine the most promising opportunities for industrial development in the Rocky Mountain region.

Scott is located in the Denver National Bldg. His activities, he announced, will be limited to advisory service, as he will not deal in securities.

Rocky Mountain News, December 21, 1965¹⁷⁴²

Funeral Notices

SCOTT—

Richard M. Scott, Jr. of 4055 E. 17th Ave. Husband of Margo P. Scott. Services today 11:30 a. m. MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL To Fairmount. Friends who wish may make contributions to St. Luke's Hospital Building Fund or to the Charity of their choice.

Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colorado