Samuel Raymond Scottron (abt. 1841 - 1908)

Born about Feb 1841 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Died 14 Oct 1908 at about age 67 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States

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Samuel was a Sutler during the US Civil War for the 3rd US Colored Infantry

Samuel R. Scottron was a prominent American inventor from Brooklyn, New York.^[1]

Samuel Raymond Scottron, son of Samuel Scottron and Jane Robinson was born free in Philadelphia in 1841. He moved with his family to New York City when he was a child, where he completed grammar school.

During the American Civil War, he was the sutler for the 3rd United States Colored Infantry and almost went bankrupt. To recoup his fortunes, he first operated grocery stores in Fernandina and Jacksonville, Florida, and then a barber shop in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was there that he developed and patented his first invention, the adjustable window cornice.

Moving to Brooklyn, New York, he worked as a traveling salesman for an import-export business located in lower Manhattan while continuing to patent his inventions and, by the late 1880s, was able to support himself and his family by manufacturing the products derived from his patents. His company, the Scottron Manufacturing Company, was located at 98 Monroe Street in Brooklyn.

Samuel Scottron married Anna Maria Willett, a native New Yorker, in 1863; they would have five children.^[2]

He died in Brooklyn on October 14, 1908. In his obituary, he is survived by his wife, son Oscar, daughters Alice, Rowena and Anna, grandchildren Alice, Charles and Florence, brothers Cyrus (Lena Horne's grandfather) and Thomas, and sister Melissa Adams. ^[3]

His grandson, Charles Scottron, played for the Smart Set Athletic Club basketball team, one of the Black Fives teams, which were basketball leagues in the period between 1900 and 1940, when racial segregation was institutionalized, in which African-American players in New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Pittsburgh, and later other cities, engaged in community-based and inter-city leagues and rivalries.

Scottron was the uncle (not grandfather) of of legendary performer Lena Horne.

Sources

1. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Scottron
2. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78810962/biographical-sketch-of-samuel-r-scottron/
3. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78807154/obituary-for-samuel-raymond-scottron-ag/

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC4W-JN8 : 18 February 2021), Samuel R Scottron in entry for Samuel J Scottron, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZD3-QLZ : 19 February 2021), Sam'L R Scottran, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 207, sheet 287A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,854.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSNZ-T7K : accessed 1 June 2021), Samuel R Scottron, Borough of Brooklyn, Election District 24 New York City Ward 23, Kings, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 404, sheet 15B, family 350, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,061.

• Ancestry.com. Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2019.