Edward Scott smiling and holding a fish.

Category: 

Agriculture

Tags: 

Entrepreneur, Farmer, Seafood

Edward Scott Sr. and Edward Logan Scott Jr.

Mississippi | 1980s

Edward Sr. moved his family from Alabama to Mississippi in 1919 to work as a sharecropper. He earned enough money to become a successful rice farmer. Edward Jr. expanded the business into cotton and soybeans, then opened a lucrative catfish enterprise in 1980.

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