New Haven County CT

Scranton, George W.; was born in Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut, May 23, 1811; received a common school education; when eighteen years of age removed to New Jersey; subsequently removed to Pennsylvania, and engaged in the iron and railroad business, having extensive interests at Oxford, New Jersey, and at Scranton, Pennsylvania; held the positions, severely, of President of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, and of the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railway; in 1858 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Manufactures; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress. Died at Scranton, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1861.
~Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, Charles Lanman, Joseph M Morrison, 1887.

Scranton, Joseph A.; was born at Madison, Connecticut, July 26, 1838; removed to Pennsylvania in 1847; received an academic education; was Collector of Internal Revenue from 1862 to 1866; in 1867 founded the Scranton Republican newspaper; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1872; was Postmaster at Scranton, Pennsylvainia, from 1874 to 1881; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-seventh Congress; in 1884 was elected a Representative to the forty-ninth Congress.
~Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, Charles Lanman, Joseph M Morrison, 1887.

Whitlock, Rev. Henry