Scoville, Charlie B.

SCOVILLE, TROTTER, MILLER, VAN EPPS, MARK, DRAKE, SAMPSON

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Scoville, Charlie B.

Charlie B. Scoville was born September 18, 1860, in Buena Vista Township, Jasper County, Iowa, and was the son of Joseph and Mary A. (Trotter) Scoville. His father was born near Utica, New York, and his mother was born in Hendricks County, Indiana. His father was born April 13, 1823, and at the age of nine years went with his parents to live in Ohio. Here he stayed until after coming of age. He then lived in Wisconsin for about four years, but in 1854 he came to Jasper County, Iowa, and entered land from the government, he and his two brothers, Bennett and Oratio Scoville, entering about three hundred and sixty acres, one hundred and twenty acres apiece. Bennett Scoville afterwards enlisted in the war in an Iowa regiment and died while in the war. Joseph R. Scoville died in Jasper County, October 29, 1889.

Mr. Scoville's mother was born September 16, 1836, and died in October 1897, while on a visit to a son in Nebraska. Charlie Scoville was one of five children: William A. lives near Sumner, Nebraska, where he owns a fine farm and conducts a real estate business and farming; James E., born January 10, 1863. For a good many years this brother was lost track of, but after an extensive search he was located in Minnesota, suffering from tuberculosis, from which disease he died six weeks after being brought back home to Jasper County. He was unmarried; Hattie M., wife of Robert S. Miller, born February 8, 1865, lives on a farm in Kellogg Township, near the home of the subject; Martha E., wife of Ed. Van Epps, born January 25, 1867, lives in Buena Vista Township on a farm; he died in 1911.

The subject of this sketch was married to Lucy J. Mark, daughter of Samuel and Fanny Mark, June 17, 1895. She was born September 16, 1868, in Marion County, Iowa. Her parents were both natives of Ohio. They removed to Iowa and settled in Marion County, and when the daughter, Lucy, was six years old (1876), they moved to Jasper County and bought land in Buena Vista Township. Here the father died in 1893. The mother still lives on the place and is sixty-three years old at the time this sketch is written.

Mrs. Scoville was one of seven children, two of whom died in infancy: Rosaltha, who married William Drake, lives on a farm in Kellogg Township near the Scovilles; Ada, widow of George Sampson, who was killed by foul air while engaged in boring out a well, lives with her mother at the old home place; and Daisy, who married Charles Sampson, a brother of George, mentioned above. They live on a farm in the northern part of Iowa. Mrs. Scoville's father enlisted in Ohio for the Civil war, and served about three years.

To Mr. and Mrs. Scoville were born four children: Robert Mark, born May 10, 1897; Viola, born February 25, 1901; Emerson, born September 21, 1902; Lester, born May 1, 1899, died in infancy.

Mr. Scoville is the owner of two hundred and twenty-one acres of splendid land, well improved, a part of it being that which his father entered in 1854. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 376 at Kellogg. He has held township offices, such as road commissioner and supervisor, and school director. In politics he is a Republican. He is not affiliated with any Church. Mrs. Scoville is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 969.