Biographies
Scranton, George
W.; was born in Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut, May 23,
1811; received a common school education; when eighteen years of age removed
to New Jersey; subsequently removed to Pennsylvania, and engaged in the iron
and railroad business, having extensive interests at Oxford, New Jersey, and
at Scranton, Pennsylvania; held the positions, severely, of President of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, and of the Cayuga and
Susquehanna Railway; in 1858 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Manufactures; was
re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress. Died at Scranton, Pennsylvania,
March 24, 1861.
~Source: Biographical
Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, Charles Lanman, Joseph
M Morrison, 1887.
Scranton, Joseph A.;
was born at Madison, Connecticut, July 26, 1838; removed to
Pennsylvania in 1847; received an academic education; was Collector
of Internal Revenue from 1862 to 1866; in 1867 founded the Scranton
Republican newspaper; was a Delegate to the Republican National
Convention of 1872; was Postmaster at Scranton, Pennsylvainia, from
1874 to 1881; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
forty-seventh Congress; in 1884 was elected a Representative to the
forty-ninth Congress.
~Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil
Government of the United States, Charles Lanman, Joseph M Morrison,
1887.
