Levi Scott After growing up in Illinois, Levi Scott migrated to Oregon by wagon train in 1844. There he contributed to early settlement and exploration, including a substantial role in opening the Oregon Trail's Southern Route. He founded the town of Scottsbur on the Umpqua River, was a member of the territorial legislature from 1852 to 1854, and was the first janitor and groundskeeper at the University of Oregon in the middle 1870s. Read More Read Less