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Irving Murray was born on December 25, 1837 on his father's farm at Hebron Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. He was the son of Quaker parents, John and Elizabeth (Leittig) Scott. Through the grist mill his father ran in connection with his farm, Scott early developed an interest in mechanics.
After attending the district school near his home, Irving Murray Scott took a three-year course at Milton Academy in Baltimore and at the same time began an apprenticeship as machinist. He studied at night in the Baltimore Mechanics' Institute he became proficient in drafting.
Scott worked for a time in the shop of Obed Hussey, manufacturer of reaping machinery, and then in 1857, at the age of twenty, entered the steam-engine manufactory of Murray and Hazlehurst in Baltimore. He soon was transferred to the designing department and placed in charge of the construction of stationary engines and fire engines.
In 1860 he went to San Francisco to erect an engine purchased from his employers by Peter Donahue; upon completing this he continued to work in Donahue's iron works for two years. After a few months as chief draftsman in the Miners' Foundry and Machine Works in San Francisco, he went back to Donahue as superintendent.
In 1865, when Donahue retired, he was taken into the business as a partner, and from that time until his death he was associated with it. During the succeeding ten years he conducted a foundry and iron works, in which the mining machinery for the Comstock mines in Nevada was designed and manufactured.
In 1880, in a trip around the world, he made an exhaustive study of manufacturing industries, particularly of ship-building in France and England. Soon after his return to the United States in 1882 he and his partners incorporated their business under the name of the Union Iron Works and in 1883 began a ship-building plant covering approximately twenty acres of land; and in 1884 the construction of ships was begun. Two years later Scott secured a contract from the federal government for the construction of the warships the Olympia, the San Francisco, the Oregon, the Wisconsin, and the Ohio.
In 1898 he went to St. Petersburg (later Leningrad). He was intensely interested in all civic affairs of San Francisco and served as president of the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco, regent of the University of California, and trustee of Stanford University.
At the time of his death in San Francisco he was survived by his widow and two children.
Having worldwide reputation as a shipbuilder, Irving Murray Scott secured a contract from the federal government for the construction of the warship Charleston, the first battleship built on the Pacific Coast. He was an adviser of the Russian government in the building of warships. He also designed improved steam engines with a cut-off of his own invention.
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Scott was married in 1863 to Laura Harde of Covington, Kentucky. Thery had two children.
