Age
38. Married Margaret McChesney of Pennsylvania on June 28, 1876. They became the parents of two sons and a daughter.
39-72. Editor of the Oregonian. The first time he had been a hired editor. He now returned as part owner, having bought most of the stock of H. W. Corbett. He remained editor the rest of his life.
60-63. President of the Oregon Historical Society from 1898 to 1901.
65. Candidate for United States senator but defeated in the Oregon legislature in 1903. President of the Lewis and Clark Exposition from 1903 to 1904.
62-72. Director of the Associated Press from 1900 to 1910.
72. Died in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 7, 1910.
In 1933 a bronze statue of him was placed in Mt. Tabor Park, Portland, with the following inscription on the granite base:
HARVEY W. SCOTT
18381910
PIONEER
EDITOR
PUBLISHER
MOLDER OF OPINION IN
OREGON AND THE NATION
In this discussion of him as a man of letters, his lack of some literary qualifications has been indicated; whether he had others has been left without definite opinion, for time and changing tastes to prove; that he possessed one, not alone sufficient, but of great importance, is open to no doubt or qualification, and that is style.
In fuller description of this and how it was secured—whether with ease and facility, like Joaquin Miller's, or with agonies of search and alteration and weighing, like Flaubert's—two statements regarding it will be given. The first is by Alfred Holman, after-
