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W. SCOTT TOWER was born in 1834 in Oneida county, New York. His father, Julius Tower, was a native of New York, and is now a resident of Carthage. His mother, Delia, nee Hearsey, was also a native of the Empire State. Mr. Julius Tower and family moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1846, where the subject of this sketch, after arriving at the age of manhood, engaged in business. In 1863 he removed to New York city, where he was in business until 1868, when he emigrated west, and became a citizen of Jasper county, opening a real estate and loan office in Carthage, where he is still engaged in business. In the year 1879 he became associated with Mr. E. P. Searle in the real estate and loaning business. These gentlemen enjoy a prosperous business, and are favorably known far and near in the county and surrounding country. Mr. Tower is president of the Building and Loan Association, and is interested in several farms and also city property. He was married to Miss Sarah Griffin in 1863, a native of Massachusetts. Mr. Tower came to Jasper county when the country was new, and has lived to see a thriving and prosperous county seat grow from a small town to the Queen City of the Southwest. He deserves much credit in his public enterprise and hard work in building up the city of Carthage. Jasper county owes much of its prosperity and the thrift and public spirit of its citizens to his instrumentality and untiring efforts.