The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-07-04
You All Knaw Him.

The Philadelphia Sunday Times in It's
issue of June 24th. and again in its issue OF
July LIST, devoted a page to brief sketches
OF the veteran editors Of Pennsylvania.
In the issue of the latter date we find the
following Of the editor Of the HERALD.
The sketch is accompanied by very ex-
celient likeness OF Mr.. SctIll. and follows
under a general Introductory:
THE State veteran editor in the sunset OF
life is an interesting picture. He has
been tireless agent in perfecting the
registry of events and deeds, and in shap-
ing the opinion and policy and ways of
those about him. To this veteran editor
the unversality of personal acquaintance
i true in every detail and toll has been
hard and unremitting. To him struct-
urcs have had the finishing touch of time
and for him has been the privilege to live
IN the present that once was the future,
when the spirit of prophecy struggled
within. The editor, as the story runs be-
low in chapters briefly covering his life
time, is the genius who came before the
wonders that revolutionized travel and
the channels of communication, and
whose pen controlled all politics and leg
islation and the affairs of government.
'.Ex-Congressman and Editor Edward
Scull has long been leader among the
frosty sons of thunder, i'm the Somerset
country, and he refers to his life as un-
eventfui. With the average country edi-
tor this is always matter Of opinion, as
he is invariably the busy man in his COM
munity without seeming to know it. The
Somerset HERALD was established in
lS27, and Mr.. Scull has been its editor
since the year ISL
lie was born in Pittsburg in ISIS and
had common school and academic edu-
cation. He was admitted to the bar of
Westmoreland county in 1874, having
studied law in Greensburg, and, remov-
ing to Somerset in 1916, he practiced law
until 1851. when he was elected Prothono-
tary and Clerk Of the Courts for term of
three years. ON March 4, 1853, he WAS
appointed Collector of Internal Revenue
by President Lincoln, was removed by
President johnson, September, 1866, and
was again appointed Assessor by Presi-
dent Grant in April, 1862. Mr.. Scull be-
came Collector of the 10th Pa district
March p 1873 and served in that capacity
until August, 1881, when the district was
consolidated with another. He was
delegate 10 the National Republican Con-
vention at Baltimore in 1854, again at
Cincinnati in 1876, and at Chicago in IssL
He was elected TO the Fiftieth, Fifly-first
and Fifty-second Congresses as u Repub-
liean- Surely this is indicative of AN
eventual life and very strong evidence of
energy and thrift.
Mr.. Scull has been busy man. He is
descended in direct line from Nicholas
Scull, who landed at Chester, September
10, 1856, and became a member of the col
ony Of William Penn. Nicholas came
from Bristol England, and was member
of the Society of Friends His Grand
father, John Seull, jonrneyed through
the wilderness from Reading to Pitts
burg in I7s;i and in July Of that year es-
tablished the Gdzstfe, now the C0mmer-
ciGl- gazette, which he published and
edited until some time in 1918, when he
was succeed by John / Scull, the father
of Editor Scull, lawyer, who after an
experience Of two years disposed Of the
paper.
Mr.. Scull read law in the Office Oft
late United States Senator Cowan at
Greensburg. and married daughter of
Gen. Alexander Ogle in lsi2, establish
ing the Wing the same year, which i'm
few months was merged into the HER
AID, the influential weekly paper that
he has since continuously edited and
steered in its political course. His five
sons all became practical printers and the
two youngest now control and manage
the business and news department of the
paper"