OBIT: James Melvin HANSCOM, 1918, formerly of Blair County, PA

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James Melvin Hanscom
  
  James Melvin Hanscom, for many years a resident and business man of 
Tyrone, and for the past twenty-five years a prominent citizen of 
Ridgway, died Monday night at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, 
Philadelphia.  For several years he had been in failing health, a 
constant sufferer from rheumatism.  In the hope of relief by operation, 
he entered the university hospital some time ago.  The operation was 
performed, but he did not rally from it.  Mrs. Hanscom was with him at 
the hospital when the dread end came.  The deceased came to Tyrone as 
an apprentice in the gun-making establishment of his brother-in-law, 
George W. Harder, and later succeeded to the business.  He was a 
resident of Tyrone for a number of years, removing then to Ridgway 
where he established a similar business.  In recent years, also, he had 
been a Justice of The Peace at Ridgway.  Mr. Hanscom was united in 
marriage here, with Miss Eunice Patterson, of Tyrone, and his wife 
survives him, together with two sons, James, who is in the United 
States Aviation service, and Richard, who holds a responsible position 
with the Elk Tanning company at Falls Creek.  The deceased was a member 
of the Masonic Fraternity and of the Presbyterian Church.  The remains 
were taken to Ridgway where the funeral services and interment will 
take place.  Mrs. James F. Aults, of Tyrone, a sister of Mrs. Hanscom, 
went to Ridgway today to be present at the funeral.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., March 21, 1918, page 4  

1910 Ridgway Ward 5, Elk County census -
James M. Hanscom, 49  
Eunice Hanscom, 47  
James Hanscom, 22  
Richard Hanscom, 18