Julia H. Scott (, Kinney; November 4, 1809 – March 5, 1842) was an American author who had the distinction of being the Poet of Sheshequin. She wrote numerous articles of prose and poetry, which were published in many of the most popular literary periodicals in the U.S. She was a prominent literary figure in the Universalist religion, along with Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo and Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer.

Biography

Julia Hutchinson Kinney was born in Sheshequin, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1809. Her parents were George Kinney (d. 1862) and Mary Carner Kinney (1787-1863). Her siblings were George Wayne, Horace, Newcomb, W. Wallace, O. H. Perry, Mary, and Somers. Before marriage, Scott wrote many fugitive pieces for the periodicals, in prose and verse. She wrote more considerably for the religious magazines and journals of her own order (Universalist) of which she was an eminent member. Without possessing remarkable powers of fancy or delineation, and avoiding the portrayal or excitement of stern passion, her writings were prized for their purity, sweetness, and piety. She also contributed to purely literary periodicals. Her poems were collected and two editions published. Scott taught school in

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, and that is where she met Dr. David L. Scott. They married on May 2, 1835, in Sheshequin. After marriage, they removed to Towanda, about from her birthplace.

Death and legacy

Scott died of

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in Towanda, March 5, 1842, in her thirty-third year. After her death, a volume of her ''Poems'' was published, with a memoir by Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo. Universalist Church BradCo PA from NW

The first

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in Sheshequin was conducted in 1830 by Scott. A tablet on the Universalist Church in Bradford County on Route 354 commemorates this fact and includes the names of other people associated with this church.

Selected works

Her publications include: *
The sacrifice: a clergyman's story
', 1834 * ''Poems'', 1843 * ''Memoir'', 1860

References

Attribution

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Bibliography

External links

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The Julia Scott Memoir Controversy
by Katie Replogle, February 25, 2017, at Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Julia H. 1809 births 1842 deaths 19th-century American poets 19th-century American women writers People from Bradford County, Pennsylvania 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Pennsylvania