Austin Scott (1848-1922)

Austin Scott (August 10, 1848 – August 15, 1922) was the tenth President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University), serving from 1891 to 1906.

Biography
Scott was born in Toledo, Ohio, to Jeremiah Austin Scott and Sarah Remey. His birth name was Frank Austin Scott, but he eventually dropped his first name and went by "Austin cott".

Scott received a baccalaureate degree from Yale College in 1869 and earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) from the University of Michigan in 1870.

According to historian Hugh Hawkins, Scott preferred teaching at Hopkins to his work with Bancroft, and wanted to become a full-time instructor at Hopkins, even offering to end all other obligations. But he was not granted full-time status and left Hopkins in 1882. The reason he was not promoted may have had more to do with Herbert Baxter Adams than Scott's own abilities. Adams possessed "unlimited ambition and great adroitness," and Adams gained a full-time appointment while Scott did not.

In 1882, Scott married Anna Prentiss Stearns and they had seven children.

In 1883, Scott was appointed to the faculty of Rutgers College as a Professor of History, Political Economy, and Constitutional Law, and was elected to succeed Merrill Edward Gates in 1891.

During Scott's tenure, Rutgers received a gift from Robert Francis Ballantine (1836–1905). Ballantine was a wealthy brewer from Newark, New Jersey. The money was used to build a gymnasium. A gift from Ralph and Elizabeth Rodman Voorhees provided funds for the construction of a new library in 1873. The old libray was in Kirkpatrick Chapel. By 1906, Scott had resigned as president and returned to teaching political science, constitutional law, international law and civics. From 1906 to 1922 he taught and aided William H. S. Demarest, the new president.

Scott served as the Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1912 to 1915. He died in Granville, Massachusetts, in 1922 at his summer home. His widow died on January 23, 1933.