Isaiah Benjamin Scott or I. B. Scott (September 30, 1854 - July 4, 1931) was an American

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Isaiah Benjamin Scott was born in

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on September 30, 1854. He attended private schools in Frankfort, public schools in Austin, Texas, and

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, before graduating from Central Tennessee College in 1880. He married Mattie J. Evans in Franklin, Tennessee on May 24, 1881, and they had six children. Scott was an ordained

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reverend and elder; and was active in the leadership of the denomination. He attended five general conferences, three Ecumenical Methodist conferences and served on the church's National Book and Missionary committees. Scott was appointed by the Methodist Episcopal Church to be the first

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President of

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and to serve as a Missionary Bishop in

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. Scott served as one of the African-American commissioners from

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to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and the

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in 1895. In 1909 Scott was honored with

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in the

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. Isaiah Benjamin Scott died at his home in

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on July 4, 1931, He was buried at Greenwood Cemetery.

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1854 births 1931 deaths American theologians People from Marshall, Texas Methodist missionaries in Liberia American Methodist missionaries Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church Methodist missionary bishops American expatriates in Liberia African-American Methodist clergy American Methodist clergy Wiley University faculty African-American missionaries {{US-bishop-stub

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