Josiah T. Scovell, M.D.  

Josiah Thomas Scovell, M.D. born July 29, 1841 Vernibtville Eaton county, Mich Death May 9 1915 Terre Haute, Vigo county, Indiana Burial May 10 1915 Highland Lawn emetery Terre Haute, Vigo county, Indiana son of Stephen Decouter Scovell and Carolina Miranda Parker

Death of Dr. Scovell

Terre Haute May 22 - The funeral of D. Joseph T. Scovell, 72 years old was held Monday at the home.

Dr. Dcovell was head of the science department of the Wiley High School and previously for ten years held the chair of science in the Indiana State Normal school.

He gained recongnition as a scientist through his explorations in old Mexico where he studied the Aztex ruins, and in 1892 he ascended and detrimined the height of Mt. Orizana at 18,314 feet.

Dr. Scovell has beencoming to Lake Maxinkuckee for a goodmany years and universally beloved by tge villagers and cottagers. - Citizen May 13, 1915

married December 25, 1876 tippecanoe county Indiana Johannah Christie Jameson Birth Jan 22 1854 Napoleon, Ohio Death Mar 12 1929 Terre Haute, Vigo county, Ind. Burial May 14 1929 Highland Lawn Cemetery Terre Haute, Vigo county, Indiana daughter of James A. Jameson and Joanna

children

Zayda Marian Scovell Birth Jan 4 1879 Indiana Death Apr 18 1954
washington county Pennsylvania

Ralph H. Scovell Birth June 24 1884 Death 1889 Burial July 31 1889 Highland Lawn Cemetery Terre Haute, Vigo county, Indiana

Robert Jameson Scovell Birth Aug. 11 1887 Terre Haute, Vigo county, Ind. Death April 2 1850 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Arilington county, Virginia married Anne Longton

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Josiah T. Scovell, M.D., Terre Haute, was born in Eaton county, Mich, July 29, 1841, and is a son of Stephen D. and Carolina (Parker) Scovell, of English and German origins, former a native of Vermont and a farmer, latter a native of Connecticut.

The father died in Michigan in 1852. They reared a family of four children, out subject being the eldest.

He was raised on a farm, and attended the district schools for a time; then entered Oberlin college, Ohio, where he graduated in the regular classical course in 1866.

He had connected the study of medicine before finishing his college course, and after completing his college studies, he studied one year in the medical college at Ann Arbor, Mich. He then entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, where he graduated in 1869. He went, and practiced two years in Colorado, and then returned to Michigan.

The Doctor had in the meantime devoted considerable attention to scientific subjects, and soon after his return to Michigan was offered a position in the State Normal School of Indiana, Terre Haute. This he accepted, and has since made this city his home. He filled the chair of professor of natural science nine years in this institution. Thus his time was fully employed teaching others, and at the same time advancing himself until he is now recognized as authority on many subjects of scientific interest. He resigned his professorship in 1881, and since the has engaged in the business of abstractor of titles.

Dr. Scovell was united in marriage December 25, 1876, with Miss Johannah Jameson, a lady of Scotch descent, and their children are Zayda and Robert C.

Dr. and Mrs Scovell are members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he affiliates with the Republicans.

He volunteered in 1865, in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Vol. Infantry, Company K, and served until the close of the war.

History of Vigo and Parke Counties: together with historic notes on the Wabash Valley, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources Chicago: H.H. Hill and N. Iddings, 1880, Beckwith, H. W. pg. 919-20