<p style="text-align:center"><strong>E. PARKER SCAMMON</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>No. 899 · Class of 1837</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Died December 7, 1894, at New York City, aged 78 years.</strong></p><p>General E. Parker Scammon was the son of Honorable Eliakim Scammon, of Whitefield, Lincoln County, Maine, where he was born December 27, 1816. In 1833 he entered the Military Academy at West Point, from which he graduated in 1837, fifth in a class of fifty-two. Generals Dyer, Benham, Bates, Hooker and Bragg and Early, (afterward of the Confederate Army,) are a few of the noted men who were his classmates. His room-mate was General Bragg.</p><p>On July 1st, 1837, he was appointed Second Lieutenant of the Fourth Artillery, and on July 7th, 1838, was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant of Topographical Engineers. During this time he also served as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at West Point.</p><p>In 1839 and the latter part of 1838 he served in Florida, and was afterward appointed on the Topographical Service at Oswego, New York. During 1839-40 he, with General Fremont, served under the French astronomer, Nicollet, in Washington, to determine geographical points in the present States of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota.</p><p>Afterward he was assigned the Professorship of Ethics at West Point, which position he held until 1846. Among his pupils were such noted men as Generals Grant, Rosecrans and Newton.</p><p>He was then appointed Aide de Camp to General Scott in Mexico, and was recommended by him for promotion for bravery at the capture of Vera Cruz. He there contracted the yellow fever, and on his recovery was sent by General Scott as bearer of dispatches to Washington.</p><p>In 1845 he had been received into the Catholic church, by Dr. Pise, at St. Peter's church in Barclay street, New York. From 1847 to '54 he was engaged under Captain John Macomb in the survey of the upper lakes.</p><p>In 1856, on leaving the Army, he resided in West Virginia, where he remained until 1858. He then received the Professorship of Mathematics at Mt. St. Mary's College, near Cincinnati, Ohio, and was afterward Director of the Polytechnic College of Cincinnati, Ohio.</p><p>On the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed Colonel of the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteers and placed in command of Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. During 1861-2 he commanded a Brigade under Generals Rosecrans and Cox in West Virginia, and in 1863 was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General, for gallant conduct at the Battle of South Mountain. Among those who served under him during the rebellion were Ex-President Hayes, General Stanley Matthews, Colonel Comley and Governor McKinley. In 1864 he was taken prisoner of war, and, after being held for three months at Libby prison, he was then transferred with several other general officers to Charleston, South Carolina, where they were exposed to the fire of our own guns. This soon brought about an exchange of prisoners. He was then ordered to Florida, where he was in command until the close of the war.</p><p>In 1866 he received the appointment of United States Consul for Prince Edward's Island, where he remained until 1870, when he resigned, and was employed as Engineer in New York Harbor, under General Newton.</p><p>From 1875 to '85 he was Professor of History and Mathematics in Seton Hall College, New Jersey.</p><p>He has spent the last four years of his life at the home of his son-in-law, N. S. Jones, at Audubon Park. His time was spent in literary work, largely reminiscent of the Mexican and civil wars. He died after a long illness, on the morning of December 7. General Scammon leaves a widow and four daughters, Mrs. N. S. Jones, Mrs. F. D. Hoyt, and Mrs. A. D. Blanchet, Jr., of New York, and Mrs. Walter Lockwood, of Chicago. One brother survives him, Captain Charles M. Scammon, of the United States Revenue Marines, well known for his work on the Mammalia of the American Whale Fisheries of the Pacific Coast. Another brother, the late Honorable J. Young Scammon, was one of the pioneers of Chicago, Illinois.</p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/11708">Annual Report, June 10, 1895, pp. 53�55 · U.S. Military Academy Library</a></p>