Peter Cameron Scott

[1] Scott was born to a Christian family in Glasgow, which later migrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia.

However, at the age of twenty, due to poor health his doctor advised him to change climates and returned to Scotland to recover.

It was in Glasgow that he visited the grave of his sister, considered his own death, and dedicated his life to Christian work.

While recuperating, he developed his idea of establishing a network of mission stations that would stretch from the southeast coast of Africa to Lake Chad.

They arrived off the east African coast in October, and in little more than a year his idea was to establish a network had four stations—at Kalamba, Sakai, Kilungu, and Kangundo, all in Kenya.