Scott, Isaiah Benjamin
(born: September 30, 1854 - died: July 4, 1931)Born in Woodford County, KY, Bishop Isaiah B. Scott was the first African American president of Wiley College in Marshall, TX (1893-1896). In 1907 the school received the first Carnegie library west of the Mississippi River. In 1887, Scott had also been the first "Negro Missionary" in Hannibal, MO; Scott Chapel was named in his honor. He was also editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate in New Orleans (1896-1904). He was elected Bishop for Africa in 1904 and moved to Liberia. Scott returned to the United States and wrote Four Years in Liberia, published in 1908.
Isaiah B. Scott was educated at private schools in Frankfort, KY, then attended public schools in Austin, TX. He was an 1880 graduate of Central Tennessee College. He had taught school to help pay his college tuition. When he graduated in 1880, he also joined the Tennessee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The following year he returned to Texas and taught mathematics at the Prairie View Normal School. Rev. Scott would return to Tennessee where he died in 1931. Isaiah B. Scott's full biography can be found on p.262 in The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, v.14 (online at Google Books).
For more see Who's Who in Colored America, 1927; Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans, by J. B. Bennett;