JOHN W. SCROGGS

SCROGGS, HENDERSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/4/2020 at 20:28:56

JOHN W. SCROGGS was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, October 5th, 1819. He is the son of Aaron and Sarah Scroggs, old settlers of Trumbull County. His father was a farmer, and on this he was raised till the age of twenty-one, and attended the common schools of Poland, receiving a fair English education. After becoming of age, he learned the carpenter and joiner’s trade, at which he worked in Poland till 1845, when in the fall of that year, he came to Keokuk. Working at his trade here during the years intervening till the summer of 1847, when he established the first lumber yard in the city, on Second street, between Main and Blondeau, which, in 1854, he removed to his present grounds, corner of Concert and Fifth streets, where he has ever since carried on a large and prosperous business, having at one time several branch yards at different points on the railroads.

He is carrying on an average business of about a hundred thousand dollars stock. He owns considerable real estate in the city, and has a fine residence commanding a delightful view from the bluff at the corner of Franklin and Third streets.

Mr. Scroggs is a thorough and reliable business man; and during his long career in this city, has merited and received the confidence and respect of the community at large.

He lived a bachelor up to the Washington’s birthday, 22 February, 1865, when he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Henderson, of Wooster, Ohio.

Source:
Illustrated Historical ATLAS of Lee County, IOWA
A. T. Andreas
Chicago, ILL.
1874

Transcription by Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer