James M. Scott (1911 - 2001), an author, inventor, and Senior Olympian, was born in Wisdom, Missouri, on May 28, 1911, to James Baker Scott and Cordelia Susan Suiter. One of five children (a sister of whom died four days after birth), he grew up in Fairfield, Missouri, near Warsaw. The town was buried under water in the early 1970s when the Truman Dam was built. Wikipedia
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