Editing John T. Scopes (section)

==Early life==
Scopes was born in 1900 to Thomas Scopes and Mary Alva Brown, who lived on a farm in [[Paducah, Kentucky]]. John was their fifth child and only son.<ref name="NYT"/> The family relocated to [[Danville, Illinois]], when he was a teenager. In 1917, he relocated to [[Salem, Illinois]], where he was a member of the class of 1919 at Salem Community High School.{{sfn|Manuscripts & Folklife Archives|2013|page=2}}

He attended the [[University of Illinois]] briefly, then quit for health reasons. He earned a degree at the [[University of Kentucky]] in 1924, with a major in law and a minor in geology.{{sfn|Leonard|Crainshaw|1997|page=710}}

Scopes relocated to [[Dayton, Tennessee]], where he became the [[Rhea County High School]] football coach, and occasionally served as a substitute teacher.{{sfn|Wilson|2012|page=43}}