* Captain of a ship filled with
men from Gardiner sailing San Fransisco and the great 1849 Gold
Rush * * Discovered what became Scammon's Lagoon * * Wrote
& Illustrated "Marine Mammals of the Pacific"
a scientific milestone * * Captained Ship laying 1st
telegraph cable to Russia via Siberia to St Petersburg * *
popular adventure author *
*
actually Charles was born ½ mile over the Whitefield
townline in East Pittston, where his father was now was a town
official.
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* West Point Graduate * *
Taught at West Point * * Fought in Seminole War * * Future
President's McKinley and Hayes both served under him * *
Fought at Antietam * * promoted to Brigadier General
* *President of the Ohio Military Academy * *
Prolific Essay Writer * * United States Foreign Counsel to
P.E.I. *
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*First public attorney in 1835
Chicago * *published
"Seammon's Reports" (4 vols., 1832-'43) * *Founded
Chicago Journal (1844) Newspaper * *Founded railroads
in Chicago* * Founded the Hahnemann
hospital in Chicago* *Founded the Swedenborgian
Church in Chicago“ * Main Speaker at
Lincoln's Nomination * *
wrote the original ordinances to set up the Chicago public
schools * *Founder of the
original University of Chicago * * Founder of Chicago
Historical Society * * Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral * *
one of the wealthiest men in America * *Scammon Art
Lecture Series at U. of Chicago * *Through
bequest and purchase, the Scammon property became the site of the
Laboratory Schools of the University of Chicago * *donated the
money for the observatory tower and dome anjd salary of the
astronomer of the Chicago Astronomical Society
* *president of the Marine Bank *
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