Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Rev. H. H. Scaggs

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Rev. H. H. Scaggs, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Rogers, 
Ark., was born August 11, 1840, in Henry County, Ind. His parents, 
Samuel Scaggs and Virginia Johnson, were natives of West Virginia. The 
father was a carpenter by occupation, and in the year 1848 was elected 
as county clerk in Randolph County, Ind., but only lived a few days 
after the election. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. 
The mother died in 1840 and the father in 1848. Our subject was the 
youngest of five children; was reared and educated in the Hoosier 
State. After attaining a suitable age he began teaching in the public 
schools of Indiana and Iowa, following this profession for about four 
years. In 1864 he entered the Nebraska Conference, first as a supply 
on Elkhorn Circuit, and was returned the next year; from there was 
sent to Saltillo charge for one year, and from that to Blue River. Was 
ordained deacon that year at Plattsmouth, Neb., by Bishop Kingsley. 
The next year he took a certificate of location and returned to 
Indiana and supplied the Burlington Circuit one year, in East 
Lafayette District, Northwest Indiana Conference. Remained two years 
in Indiana and then went to Columbus, Kas., and engaged in his 
occupation as a mechanic (jeweler), working through the week and 
preaching on Sundays. One year he was a supply at Columbus, and after 
that traveled one year as a supply on Columbus Circuit with another 
minister. In the spring of 1880, owing to failing health, he went to 
Eureka Springs. Ark., where he remained until February, 1883, when, 
being so much improved, he joined the Arkansas Conference and was 
given charge of the Wheeler Circuit for two years, then the West Fork 
Circuit, Marble City and Mason Valley. In February, 1888, he was 
stationed at Rogers, Ark., as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, where he is now at work. Rev. Scaggs has been married twice; 
first to Lydia R. Ford, of Baltimore, Md., by whom he had five 
children, three of whom died in infancy. Samuel H. Scaggs, the oldest, 
is a jeweler by occupation. but is now engaged as a drummer for C. H. 
Knights & Co., of Chicago, Ill. Allie G. Scaggs married William Carse, 
and is living in St. Louis, Mo. In 1887 our subject married Miss 
Lucinda C. Beard, of Frankfort, Ind. Mr. Scaggs is a member of the A. 
F. & A. M., and in his political views supports the principles of the 
Republican party.