Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Scanlon, Timothy Samuel (1858-1926) --------------------------------------------------------------------- West Virginia Blue Book West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1918 Compiled and edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate The Tribune Printing Company, Charleston, West Virginia Page 747, State Road Commission. T. S. SCANLON, Commissioner and Secretary-Treasurer, (Democrat), was born in Harrisonburg, Rockingham county, Virginia, November 15, 1858; moved with his parents, while an infant, to a point three or four miles west of Covington, Virginia, where his father預 contractor on the construction of what is now the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway覧died in the spring of 1860; he then moved with his mother and eight sisters and brothers to a point near Lewisburg, where his mother rented what was known as the Joe Finster farm. His oldest brother, then nearing manhood, was drafted into the Confederate army. About the second year of the war of the rebellion, he, with his mother and the other children, trecked over the mountains into the Kanawha valley, where she rented another farm in the neighborhood of Red House, and lived until the war was over, and the oldest brother returned unhurt and went to contracting, taking the family with him, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, near what is now Montgomery, upon the revival of construction on that road from the White Sulphur west to the Sandy River. The younger Scanlon received only such schooling as could be gotten in the district schools of the State at that time. At the finishing up of the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, he went into the service of that company, being then about fifteen years old, and remained in their service for nine years, filling all kinds of positions from roustabout up to trainmaster which latter position he held the last three years of his service. He then located in Huntington覧at the age of about twenty-four 覧conducting a retail shoe business, out of which he made a very respectable living; took a great interest in politics, as a Democrat; was City Treasurer of Huntington, being elected yearly from 1891 to 1896, inclusive; during that time handled the first large bond issue that was the beginning of the permanent public improvements of the city, there being at that time some six miles of paving and considerable amount of trunk sewerage put in; declined to serve any longer after this improvement was advanced; was a member of the City Council several terms; was active as such, as the council at that time constituted the School Board, as well as a governing body, in getting built the first good school now in the Huntington system覧The Oley; has been rather active in school matters, having been partly instrumental by some financial aid and considerable hard work in keeping in existence the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home for probably nine years, while it lived on voluntary contributions, and was finally instrumental in getting the State to take it over. Four years before going out of the shoes business, he became interested in construction work road building, streets and sewerage. Finally, in 1906, he sold out his shoe business and since then, up to his appointment on the Road Commission, has been actively engaged in this work. Three years of the time in connection with his contracting work, he was a member of the 擢our City Commissioners" of the city of Huntington, which gave the city probably the most active administration it has ever had, having spent覧to the satisfaction apparently of all the people覧well on to a million and a quarter dollars a year, including regular running expenses of the city and public improvements. Mr. Scanlon was appointed June 1, 1917, as a member of the West Virginia State Road Commission, by Governor John J. Cornwell. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH-CERTIFICATE, Cabell County, WV, #11993 Full-name: Timothy Samuel Scanlon Birth: Nov 15, 1858 in Harrisonburg, Va Death, Sep 1, 1926 in Huntington, Cabell County, WV Marital-status: Widower Occupation: Retired Merchant Father: Timothy Scanlon, born in Ireland Mother: Nora Mahoney, born in Ireland Informant: Miss Nellie Lee Burial: Springhill Cemetery, Huntington, Cabell, WV ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Cabell County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/cabell/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------