Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-29
Hon. Oliver p. ScoveII.

hui. OuNeI ItTTy OCONell was DOIi
in Orwell, Addison county, Vermont,
March oath, 1920. His'grandfather and
great-grandfather were soldiers in the
Revolutionary war and enlisted for the
defence of Fort Ticonderoga His
father, Col. Josiah Boardman Scovell,
late of Cambria, Niagara county, N. Y,
served in the war of 1912. His mother.
Anna SAKE, was the only daughter of
John and Catharine SAKE of Highgate,
Vermont. Early in the nineteenth
century Col. Josiah Boardman Scovell
removed from Addison county, YER
mont, and settled in Niagara county,
New York, as did his three brothers,
Ashael Scovel and Hezekiah Scovell,
who settled in Lockport, and Seymour
Scovell, who settled in Lewiston.
Hon. Oliver Perry Scovell accom-
panied his parents to Western New
York, attended school at the Yates
academy and later, with his cousin,
John G. SAKE, attended the Lewiston
academy, where he met Miss Elizabeth
Shepard, who became his wife in 1876.
Until 1853 they lived in New York city
and Boston, where Mr.. Scovell was en-
gagged in railway and steamship trans
portation business. After the death of
his first wife he was married again, on
May LIST, 1855, to Elizabeth Jewett,
eldest daughter of Philo and Eliza
Jewett of Weybridge, Vermont. In
1860 he was elected member of the
assembly of the State of New York
from the second Niagara district, and
at the time of his death was the eldest
survivor in the association of members
from that district While serving in
the legislature he introduced the
measure whereby the State of New
York was the first to appropriate money
and furnish men for the suppression of
the rebellion. After the close of the
war he was associated with Garrett
Smith, the well-known abolitionist and
philanthropist in the financing and con-
struction of the Lake Ontario Shore
railway and served as vice-president
and one of its directors until after its
completion from Oswego to Lewiston.
On settling in Lewiston in 1853, he
purchased the residence built by the
Rev. David M. Smith in 1877. which has
been occupied by him and his wife and
their family continuously since that
time. For many years he was president
of the village of Lewiston. For twenty
five years he served as chairman of the
board of education, and since 1854 he
has been an elder of the First Presby-
terrain church of Lewiston, having acted
as its clerk and treasurer for over fifty
years of that time.
He leaves widow and two sons to
survive him, the home being occupied
by Mrs. Scovell and P. Jewett Scovell,
while ]. Boardman Scovell and his
family live at Fairbanks nearby.
Only yesterday Mr.. Scovel celebrated
the ninety-second anniversary of his
birth, and his sons, in his honor, pre-.
sented to the First Presbyterian church
of Lewiston carrara marble baptisma
font, which was dedicated by Rev. Johr
w. Ross of Buffalo, former pastor OF
the church, who afterward baptized
Margaret Elizabeth. the first CRANE
child of Mr.. Scovell and the daughter OF
j. Boardman Scovell and wife. Many
of the friends and relatives of Mr.
Scovell took occasion to congratulate
him on his birthday and on the christen,
ing of his granddaughter, and over one
hundred and forty letters, kilograms
and postals were received by him dur
ing the past week. His end came sud
denly and peacefully about $50 O'Clock
this morning.
Lewiston, N. Y, March 25, 1912,