Scoville, Joseph A
journalist, author, was born in 1811 in Connecticut. He was a journalist of New York city, clerk of the common council, and at one period private secretary to Calhoun. He was the author of Adventures of Clarence Bolton, or Life in New York; The Old Merchants of New York; Vigor, a novel; and Marion. He died in 1864. born SCRANTON, GEORGE WHITEFIELD, manufacturer, congressman, was May 11, 1811, in Madison, Conn. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He died March 24, 1861, in Scranton, Pa.