Mrs. Matthew T. Scott was Julia Green, she survived her husband and became not only a landowner, but a founder and later President of the
DAR. Her sister, Letitia Green, married
Adlai E. Stevenson I in this house in 1866. Mr. Stevenson was a circuit lawyer, then residing in Metamora, who subsequently became a congressman; served as Postmaster General during
President Grover Cleveland's first administration (1885–1889), and as the
23rd Vice President of the United States during
President Grover Cleveland's second administration (1893-1897). The house was often visited by
Adlai Ewing Stevenson I and his cousin James Stevenson Ewing, U.S. minister to Belgium. Adlai Stevenson courted Letitia Green, who was Matthew T. Scott's sister-in-law. The couple were later married in the house in 1866. Stevenson and Green later had their first child Lewis Green Stevenson in the house in 1868. The house was later bought and restored by Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Ives, a great niece of Matthew T. Scott. The House was listed on the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places on February 10, 1983. The Scott House can be found along 1st Avenue in the
McLean County, Illinois city of
Chenoa. ==References and notes==