“JOSEPH HENRY SCATTERGOOD

Born at Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 26, 1877.

Parents Thomas, Sarah (Garrett) Scattergood.

School Forsythe School, Philadelphia; Haverford College, Pa.

Years in College 1896-97.

Degrees A.B.; A.B., 1896 (Haverford College, Pa.).

Married Anne Theodora Morris, June 13,1906, Villa Nova, Pa.

Children Mary Morris, Sept. 24, 1907; Thomas, Mar. 1, 19O9;

Alfred Garrett, 2d, Nov. 2,1911. Occupation Manufacturer.

Address (business) 648 Bourse, Philadelphia, Pa.

(home) 3515 Powelton Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.

After leaving college, I spent the summer of 1897 in England, playing cricket with the Gentlemen of Philadelphia. In the autumn of 1897 I started in business in Philadelphia with the American Pulley Company, and remained there until 1900, when I became a member of the Sharpless Dyewood Extract Company. Upon the consolidation, in 1904, of this company into the New York and Boston Dyewood Company to form the American Dyewood Company, I became secretary and a director of the last named, and held this office until the concentration of its executive offices in New York, in 1906. I am still a director and interested in the company as well as in the United Dye- wood Company, of which also I am a director. In 1908 I was elected president of the Union (Fire) Insurance Company of Philadelphia, and of the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. In July, 1911, these two old companies were consolidated with the Spring Garden Insurance Company under the name Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, (incorporated 1794), and I continued as a vice-president and director of this consolidated company. I am also president of the Kent Building Company (Brooklyn), and vice-president of the American Water Softener Company (Philadelphia). I have been active in reform politics of Philadelphia, having been an original member of the executive board of the Committee of Security, and one of the starters of the City Party. Upon the passage, in 1906, of the reform law in Pennsylvania, establishing personal registration of voters in the larger cities, Governor Pennypacker appointed me one of the four registration commissioners for the city of Philadelphia. I was reappointed in 1909 by Governor Stuart, and am still serving on the board. Under this law about sixty thousand fraudulent votes formerly cast in Philadelphia have been made an impossibility for the future, and the way was prepared for the final significant victory in November, 1911, when Mayor Blankenburg, a time-honored reformer, was elected.

I have continued my interest in cricket, and in addition to the trip to England of 1897, I again toured England in 1903 with the Gentlemen of Philadelphia. I was captain of the Merion Cricket Club team for four seasons, and for several years was wicket-keeper on the All-Philadelphia International teams. In 1903 and 1904 I also coached the Haverford College football team. I have been interested in mountain climbing; and exploring in the Canadian Rockies, and have made several trips to the northwest for this purpose, making four virgin ascents.

I am on the board of managers of Haverford College, the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men, the Young Men's Christian Association, Vacant Lots Cultivation Association, Christiansburg Industrial Institute, Grandon Institution, etc.

As president of the old Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, I made an historical study of the French Spoliation Claims against the United States Government, and submitted an exhaustive report, which was published by the Government, on the subject before one of the committees of Congress. I am still much interested in the pressing of these old and just claims upon Congress until the last of them shall have been paid. In 1906 I was married at Villa Nova, Pa., to Anne Theodora Morris, and have three children. We reside in Philadelphia and have a summer home at Haverford.”

(Fourth report. By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1897. 1912, p 360.)