SCRIVEN, E. P .

SCRIVEN, SCULLEN

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Date: 11/23/2006 at 20:45:34

Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Webster and Hamilton Counties, Iowa (1888)

E. P. Scriven, grocer, Webster City, is a native of New York, born in Grafton, Rensselaer County, February 19, 1852, a son of C. W. and Mercy Scriven, natives of the same State; father of English ancestry. His father was engaged in the general mercantile business at Grafton, and was also at the time of his death engaged in the manufacture of shirts. E. P. attended school until fourteen years of age, at the time of his father's death, and was compelled to leave school to assist in the settlement of his father's estate. He was employed as clerk and then as salesman in a mercantile house, and in 1874 was appointed mail carrier in Troy, New York, remaining there three years. In 1878 he came to Iowa, and, locating in Webster City, embarked in the grocery business, which he has successfully conducted, and is now one of the leading business men of the place. Mr Scriven was married June 21, 1871, to Emma A. Scullen, a native of New York, daughter of James and T. M. Scullen. They have two children -- Lottie E. and Chloe R. In politics Mr Scriven is a Republican with prohibition principles. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church.