Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....SCOUTEN, Royal 1864 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
       ROYAL SCOUTEN, postmaster of Colley, is one of the best known and most
  popular men in Sullivan county. He has held the offices of tax-collector and
  justice of the peace and in every position assigned him has earned a reputation
  for honesty, good judgment and courtesy.
  
      Mr. Scouten was born in Bradford county, January 11, 1864, and comes of a
  good family, being a son of Solomon and Deborah (Hartford) Scouten. His father
  was born in Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, and died in 1875. He was a stanch
  Republican and an honored citizen. The mother is still living and is well-known
  for her earnest work in church circles and her kindness and benevolence to all
  in need of sympathy and aid. They were parents of eight children - three sons
  and five daughters.
  
      Our subject was brought up on a farm. In the district schools he obtained
  the rudiments of a good education, and has studied and read much ever since his
  school-days were over, and is a well informed, intelligent man. He was married
  to Miss Hattie Hunsinger, July 2, 1887, and they have three children - Clyde,
  Stella and Bernard. Mrs. Scouten is a daughter of Martin and Sarah (Santee)
  Hunsinger, a family prominent among the citizens of Sullivan county.
  
      Mr. Scouten takes an active interest in political matters and is a hard
  worker in the Republican party. He has held nearly all the local offices, with
  credit to himself and for the welfare of the public, and is deserving of the
  esteem in which he is held. He has a fine farm of one hundred acres, on which he
  located in 1888. He has built a comfortable house, capacious barn and convenient
  outhouses, and the entire aspect of the place, with its meadows, pastures, wood
  lots and cultivated fields, is one of comfort and plenty. Mr. Scouten has made a
  successful farmer because he has been thorough and industrious, and has been
  equally successful by his genial ways and honest dealing in making friends
  wherever he is known.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
            Extracted from: 
              
            History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
            by Thomas J. Ingham
              
            Compendium of Biography
              
            The Lewis Publishing Company
            Chicago: 1899
  
  
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