Scammon, James
educator, lawyer, litterateur, was born June 10, 1844, in Strathan, N. H., on the old homestead occupied by the family continuously for two hundred and fifty years. He received a thorough education, graduated from the Brown university in 1868, and from the Albany Law school two years later. He has been superintendent of public schools in his native city; and principal in the River Point Classical seminary, Rhode Island. For the past twenty-five years he has been a prominent lawyer of Kansas City, Mo.; has been general counsel of the Kansas City and Eastern Railway company; president of the Franklin Savings bank; and president of the board of managers of the Jackson County Reform school. He is also president of the Speery Associate Electric company; president and chairman of the board of managers of the Kansas City Humane society; president for twenty years of the All Souls Unitarian Church society; and for several years president of the Missouri valley conference of unitarian churches. He is director in a dozen business enterprises; is best known as a lawyer and scholar, and has a library of several thousand volumes. a