Bios: M. J. SCANLON, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      M. J. SCANLON,
  
  [p. 912] the leading general contractor making a specialty of railroad
  construction, at New Castle, has been a resident of this city for the
  past twenty-six years. Although still a young man, having been born in
  1877, he has been uniformly successful in his business enterprises and
  is one of the large employers of labor in this section. His father,
  Patrick J. Scanlon, brought his family to New Castle from Pittsburg,
  where the son was born.
  
  An apt student, M. J. Scanlon completed the common school course ahead
  of many of his classmates and entered into business before they were
  prepared, trying newspaper work first, then a coal business which
  naturally led to general hauling and finally began to do general
  contracting, particularly in the line of railroad construction. Mr.
  Scanlon did the contract construction for the third and fourth tracks of
  the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne Railroad from Wallace Run to Darlington; the
  railroad yards for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Sharon; the third and
  fourth tracks from Lowellville Junction to Youngstown for the Pittsburg
  & Lake Erie; the third and fourth tracks from New Brighton to Beaver,
  which was an immense contract, also all the hauling of material and the
  manufuacturing of cement blocks in the new building at West Pittsburg.
  He has done railroad construction work also at New Castle and many other
  points, together with a large amount of general contracting. At the
  present writing (1908), he has 275 men in his employ regularly, owns
  twenty-two of the teams he uses and hires many more. Mr. Scanlon has
  been provident, wisely investing in a number of the city's prospering
  enterprises.
  
  Mr. Scanlon is a good citizen in every sense of the word. He is a
  consistent member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and he belongs to the
  great Catholic fraternal organization, the Knights of Columbus.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
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