Augustus Ewing Scoville

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Augustus Ewing Scoville (1856 - 1936)

Born 20 Apr 1856 in Newton, Jasper, Iowa, United Statesmap

Son of Lemuel Scoville and Adaline Augusta Carlisle (Fuller) Scoville

Brother of Mary Alice Scoville, Wilbur Lincoln Scoville and Frank Fuller Scoville

Husband of Susan Ray (Greene) Scoville — married 1888 [location unknown]

Died 26 Mar 1936 in Penney Farms, Clay, Florida, United States

Biography

Augustus Ewing Scoville was born on 20 April 1856 in Newton, Jasper Cunty, Iowa.[1][2][3] He was the son of Lemuel Scoville and Adaline Fuller. He was the oldest of their four children who also included Mary Alice, Wilbur Lincoln, and Frank Fuller Scoville.

In June 1860, four-year-old Augustus was living with his parents and his maternal grandmother Adeline Erving Fuller in the city of Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. His father Lemuel was working as a paper hanger and had $2,500 in personal property.[2]

In July 1870, Augustus was living with his parents, siblings, and Grandmother Adeline in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut. His father was working as a machinist, his mother had "domestic duties, and he and Mary were attending school.[4]

In June 1880, twenty-three-year-old Augustus was living in a boarding house on Providence Street in the town of Worcester in Worcester County. Massachusetts. It housed numerous teachers and their students who were attending a academy run by Nathan Leavenworth, which also included African-American students.[5] At this time his parents and siblings were living in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and his father was a worker in a sewing machine factory and his sister Mary worked in a corset factory.[6] Augustus was a clergyman who worked at several churches during his lifetime. He graduated from Newton Theological Institution in 1887[7] and became an ordained Baptist minister.[8] While at college he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1884.[9]

After settling in his career, in 1888 at age 32, Augustus married Susie Ray Greene.[1][10] The couple did not have any children.

From 1887 to 1891, Augustus was the pastor of First Church in Dover Plains, New York. He then moved and was pastor of First Church in Akron, Ohio, from 1891 to 1899.[8] Beginning on 6 February 1900, he was the pastor of First Baptist Church in Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[11]

In 1900, Augustus and Susie were living temporarily in Wilkinsonville, Massachusetts.[9] In June 1900, Augustus and Susie were lodgers living with Adelia Leighton in a boarding house at 46 East Emerson Street in Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Augustus was working as a clergyman.[12]

In April 1910, Augustus and Susie were living in a rented house at 82 Upham Street in Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Katie Crow, age 36 from Ireland, was their live-in servant. Augustus was working as a clergyman.[13] The home was a large Queen Anne Victorian with four bedrooms.[14] After serving there for 14 years, Augustus left First Church in 1913.[15]

In July 1911, Augustus and Susie took the Cunard line ship Franconia from Boston to land in Liverpool, England.[16] They took a two-month trip to England where he spoke at several churches including Broomsbury, London, Canterbury, Nottingham, and Norwich.[17]

In January 1920, Augustus and Susie lived in a home they rented on North Lombardy Street in Richmond, Virginia,[18] on the campus of Virginia Union University, which is a historically African-American university run by the Baptist church. Augustus was a teacher at the college. The Scovilles had two servants living with them, Madie E. Catt, age 53, was a cook, and Lea Catt, age 17, was a maid.[18] Augustus was a professor and a member of the theological faculty at Virginia Union University. He taught church history, theology, Greek interpretations, and introduction.[19]

After working for forty years as a Baptist minister, Augustus retired from the ministry.[1] For the last eight years of his life, he resided in Penney Farms, Clay County, Florida.[1] In April 1930, his address was unit 307 in a fourplex that he rented with Susie for $5 per month, furnished, in the Memorial Homes Community.[10]

Death

Augustus passed away less than a month before his 80th birthday on 26 March 1936 in Penney Farms, Clay County, Florida.[1] He was buried at River Bend Cemetery in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. His wife, Susie, passed just four months later.[20]

Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP79-BV4 : 8 August 2019), Augustus Eiving Scoville, 1936.

2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4NZ-5YP : 13 December 2017), Augustine E Scoville in entry for Lemuel Scoville, 1860.

3. ↑ "Iowa, State Census, 1856," State Historical Society of Iowa. Augustus E Scovill in the household of Lemuel Scovill in Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, 1856.

4. "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN73-N3Y : 8 June 2019), Augusta Scovill in entry for Lyman Scovill, 1870. 5 ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHFH-8FP : 14 August 2017), Augustus Scoville in household of Nathan Leavenworth, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district ED 891, sheet 317B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,568.

6. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFC8-TPB : 12 August 2017), Lemuel Scovill, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district ED 132, sheet 553B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,095.

7. ↑ The Newton Theological Institution: The Annual Catalog: 1909-1910. Newton Centre, MA: The Institution, December 1909. Page 80.

8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Historical Catalogue of Brown University, 1764-1904. Providence, RI: Brown University, 1905. "Augustus Erving Scoville," page 367-368.

9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Parsons, E. B. Phi Beta Kappa Hand-book and General Address Catalogue of the United Chapters. Williamstown, MA: Phi Beta Kappa, 1900. Page 53.

10.↑ 10.0 10.1 "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:S5MN-CN2 : accessed 3 January 2020), Augustus E Scoville, Penney Farms, Clay, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet 1B, line 83, family 41, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 308; FHL microfilm 2,340,043.

11.↑ Goss, Elbridge Henry. The History of Melrose, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts. Melrose: The City, 1902. Page 163.

12.↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9T8-MVB : accessed 7 January 2020), Augustus E Scovilla in household of Adelia Leighton, Melrose city Ward 4, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 880, sheet 7A, family 147, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,663.

13.↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2V2-RV5 : accessed 3 January 2020), Augustus E Scoville, Melrose Ward 4, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 944, sheet 12B, family 264, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 602; FHL microfilm 1,374,615.

14.↑ https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/82-Upham-St-Melrose-MA-02176/562...

15.↑ "Rev. Augustus E. Scoville," Baptist and Reflector (Nashville, Tennessee), Thursday 16 October 1913, page 12, column 2. Newspapers.com : 4 January 2019.

16. ↑ The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 484. "Augustus Scoville," age 55.

17.↑ "Rev. A. E. Scoville and Mrs. Scoville," Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, Connecticut), 16 September 1911, page 6, column 2. Newspapers.com : 7 January 2020.

18.↑ 18.0 18.1 "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJN1-TLF : accessed 3 January 2020), Augustus E Skoville, Richmond Lee Ward, Richmond (Independent City), Virginia, United States; citing ED 88, sheet 3A, line 11, family 46, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1910; FHL microfilm 1,821,910.

19.↑ Annual Catalogue of Virginia Union University. Richmond, Virginia: Brown Print Shop, 1923. Page 7.

20.↑ "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP3S-P2T : 8 August 2019), Susie Green Scoville, 1936.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN73-N3B : 8 June 2019), Augustus E Scovill in entry for Lyman Scovill, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2V2-RV5 : accessed 16 December 2019), Augustus E Scoville, Melrose Ward 4, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 944, sheet 12B, family 264, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 602; FHL microfilm 1,374,615.
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