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Marrying Theodora Wheeler in 1820 in Dennysville, Washington Co., Maine their first child Mary Jane Scott was born in nearby Pembroke the same year. Their son Thomas Forester Scott was born in Pembroke, on the 9th of April, 1822, and Sarah Ann Scott on the 26th of March 1824.

Locating back to Canada, David and his young family appears to have rejoined his sister, mother and brother in Nova Scotia. In Halifax, their fourth child Margaret C. Scott was born in 1825. Margaret Scott was baptized at St. Matthew's Presbyterian in 1826, a church that already had an association with the family. While David and Theodora had a daughter named Sarah Ann Scott, David's sister, with the same name had been baptized in St. Matthew's in 1803, the year their father, Serg. David Scott died.

Moving first to New York, and then Steubenville Ohio, the family is listed in the Ohio census of 1840.  Eventually the majority of the family settled in Pittsburgh although two daughters had married while living in Ohio.  Thomas Forester Scott established himself in the shoe business in Pittsburgh as a young man, and others in the family eventually migrated there as well, from Ohio.

No record has been located regarding Sarah Ann Scott other than her birth thus the story of the fourth generation is the story of three family lines, those being the descendants of:
 

Mary Jane Scott & Bernard C. Lucas	1st Pittsburgh Line
Thomas Forester Scott & Martha Taylor	2nd Pittsburgh Line
Margaret C. Scott & William James Troth	3rd Pittsburgh Line

The fourth generation members of the 1st line had strong ties to Ohio as their mother Mary Jane married her husband Bernard C. Lucas in Steubenville, Jefferson Co. Ohio in 1843.  Bernard is listed in census records as an engineer although family traditions suggests he was a captain who like his father Michael Ennis Lucas a pioneer riverboat captain.  Extensive records exist of the senior captain's life on the river, and it is known that Bernard was named for his grandfather who at one time owned the Market Street ferry in Steubenville.

Tragic losses would strike the Lucas family when their young son Robert S. Lucas died and then in 1858, the family lost their father, Bernard C. Lucas, leaving Mary Jane with two children, Mary, age 13 and Anna an infant. She continued to reside in the 3rd Ward of Steubenville, Ohio, with the two children as recorded by the 1860 census. At some later point she joined family members in the Pittsburgh area.

The Ist Pittsburgh Branch comprised in the 4th generation of the following

3 Mary Jane Scott #1131 b. 1820 Pembroke Maine d. 04 Apr 1911 PA
m. Capt. Bernard C. Lucas d. 1858 Steubenville, Jefferson Co., OH
         [son of Capt. Michael Ennis Lucas and Elizabeth Noland]
      4 Mary E. Lucas b. Ohio
        m. Frank Tyler b.  Ohio
      4 Annie F. Lucas  b. Ohio
        m. ------- McComas

2nd Pittsburgh Line

Thomas Forester Scott seems to have taken the process to a next step - into sales distribution as various obituaries indicate that he was "the first travelling shoe salesman".  Details of this aspect of his career remain sketchy but it is assumed that a move from an established retail location was likely a method to expand his business into the wholesale trade, rather than peddling his wares door to door.

Family members were prominent within Methodist circles during a time when Methodism attracted  energetic young business people, who striving for social justice and working to mobilize others in the battle against poverty and social problems.  Methodism during the nineteenth century had strong ties to causes including the effort to save families from the impact of drunkenness, and teaching literacy while instilling Christian values through Sunday schools.  Similar activities were common, and sprung from the English roots of Wesleyan Methodism in mines and factories, leading to social action in Pittsburgh and around the world.  Troth and Scott were part of a large movement, intent on improving conditions for others, and both played a major role within it.

Thomas Forester Scott married Martha Taylor in 1849, and had a family of six children - three boys and three girls:

 3 Thomas Forester Scott #1130 b. 9 Apr 1822 Pembroke, ME d. 10 Jan 1910 Castle Shannon, PA
      m. Martha Taylor #1136 m. 11 Apr 1849 b. 24 Dec 1824 Pittsburgh, PA d. 25 Sep 1908 Castle Shannon, PA
         [daughter of Richard Taylor and Martha Blackburn #1312]
      4 Walter Forester Scott b. 1849 d. 7 Aug 1927 Philadelphia, PA
      4 William Thomas Scott  b. 1851 d. 21 Mar 1929
        m. Eava Josephine Lowry m. 1873 b. 1853
           [daughter of James Lowry and Eliza Shorre #1278]
      4 Edward T. Scott   b. 1853; d. 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA, m. Emma Jahn b. Mar 1863 d. 27 Dec 1897
      4 Mary Scott  b. 1858  d. 1952; m. John P. Moore
      4 Alice Scott   d. 1950 m. Thomas E. Renton
      4 Theodora Scott  b. 1862; d. 1960 in Riverside, CA; m. 1. William S. Hixenbaugh, 2. Mr. Zoch, 3.Capt. Jacob E. Jacobson

Five of the six children who comprised the fourth generation in this line married, and of those, four had children.  Through those four, Thomas and Martha Scott had a total of 14 grandchildren. The largest family among the three Pittsburgh lines, the 2nd Pittsburgh Line, faced a family tragedy.

Edward Scott married Emma Jahn who died at the age of 34, leaving him a widower with a daughter Mary Scott.  They joined the household of his parents in Castle Shannon on the edge of Pittsburgh. The household included his brother Walter Forester Scott, who never married.

The family also saw strengthened ties to the business and professional life of the growing city during this period..  While the marriage of Thomas Forester Scott to Martha Taylor had been a connection to the extended family of Zachary Taylor, American President from 1849-1850, the marriage of their son William Thomas Scott to Eava Josephine Lowry was a connection to local politics, as her father was Mayor James Lowry of Pittsburgh. It was no surprise when William and Eava's son James Harvey Scott, a Princeton graduate and Pittsburgh lawyer entered politics as a Republican.

William and Eava raised the largest family of the Pittsburgh branches with seven of their eight children surviving childhood. They were supported by William's work as a Railway Stationary Engineer.

Margaret Scott, married Samuel Devenny in Jefferson Ohio, on 27th of October 1845. His death left Margaret a young widow like her sister Mary Jane.  Unlike her sister who had a family to raise, Margaret had no children when  Samuel Devenny died. The Devenny name would not be forgotten though when she met and married William James Troth, a 42 year old former business partner of her brother, Thomas Forester Scott. Margaret and William named their son Frank Devenny Troth.

William James Troth, had not only been a saddlemaker and shoemaker by trade, and partner in Troth & Scott, Shoe Store, 55 Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh in 1850, but also had several other careers.  Both shoemakers Thomas Scott and William Troth seemed to have a genuine interest for more than the sole leather they worked with by day - a shared concern for human souls.  William Troth became an active Methodist lay minister and Thomas Forester Scott, a prominent lay leader and founder of Sunday schools and Methodist Episcopal churches.  Eventually the business partners developed separate business interests but their connections through family and church work remained a common thread.

William Troth's career interests were broad. Beside being a Methodist minister, he served as United Methodist Congress, Secretary of Publications. He became the custodian of the Pittsburgh Safe Deposit Co. and an agent-assessor for the Internal Revenue Service. It appears that he was also a widower when he married Margaret and together they had two children. Biographical material is available on the life and work of William James Troth.  The 3rd Pittsburgh Branch comprised at the 4th generation level of the following individuals:

    3 Margaret C. Scott  b. 1825 Halifax, NS d. 30 March 1911 Arlington, PA
      m. Samuel Devenny  m. 27 Oct 1845 Jefferson, OH
      m. William James Troth  m. 28 Jun 1855 b. 3 Oct 1813 Vienna, Dorchester Co., MD d. 20 Sep
1895 Arlington, PA
         [son of Joseph Troth and Susanna Huffington Grumbles]
      4 Frank Devenny Troth  b. 28 Feb 1861 Alpsville, PA d. 8 Feb 1934 Riverside, CA
        m. Elizabeth Jahn m. 11 Apr 1889 Castle Shannon, PA  b. 4 Sep 1865 Pittsburgh, PA d. 25
Sep 1960 Riverside, CA
           [daughter of John Otto Jahn and Elizabeth Jordan]
      4 Bertha Troth  b. Pittsburgh, PA d. 1942? Riverside, CA