Grundy-Lake-Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Scovill, Hon. J. S. R. May 18, 1832 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

Hon. J. S. R. SCOVILL, jeweler and Mayor of Morris, was born in Johnstown, 
Fulton Co., N. Y., May 18, 1832; son of Rev. John SCOVILL, who was also born 
in New York, in 1804, and in the same house that our subject was born in; the 
mother Clarissa (YOUNG) SCOVILL, was also born in the same town in 1806. The 
Rev. Mr. SCOVILL was a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, and died in 
December, 1861, and his wife died in 1870. The parents raised four children to 
maturity - one son, our subject, and three daughters. Subject was educated at 
Johnstown, the common school and academy. He began in the jewelry business in 
Lyons, N. Y., with a cousin, with whom he learned the trade. He left New York 
in 1855, and went to Waukegan, Ill., and two years afterward to La Porte, 
Ind., where he remained five years; thence to Chicago and remained there till 
1866, at which time he came to Morris, and has followed the jewelry business 
ever since. He now owns not only the leading jewelry establishment of Morris, 
but of any of the small cities of this part of the State. Mr. SCOVILL was 
married at Kenosha, Wis., in January, 1856, to Elmira H. C. COLE, who was born 
in New York July 20, 1834, and is a daughter of John and Lucy (HICKS) COLE. 
Mrs. COLE now lives with her son-in-law, our subject, at this place. Subject 
has four children - two sons, J. S. R., Jr., and De Lancy T. W., and two 
daughters, Nellie Z. Y. and Fanny Belle Wallace. Mr. SCOVILL has been Alderman 
two years; is a member of the Board of Education, and has been elected Mayor 
seven times, notwithstanding that he is a Democrat, and in general elections 
the city goes Republican by a handsome majority; this shows the popularity of 
our subject. He has two maiden sisters living in a house built by his 
grandfather in New York more than a hundred years ago. Our subject has 
followed four generations to the grave from his place; first his great-
grandmother, at the age of ninety-two years; next his grandfather and 
grandmother; next his father and mother; and next, a brother and sister.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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