Eliakim Parker Scammon, USMA 1837

Born:    27 December 1816, Whitefield, ME.

Died:    7 December 1894, New York, NY.

• Graduated ninth in the class of 1837. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, USMA, August 28, 1837 to September 10, 1838.
• Professor of Mathematics, Mount Saint Mary's College, Ohio.
• President and Professor of Mathematics, Polytechnic College of the Catholic Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Professor of Mathematics, Seton Hall College, New Jersey. 
• Degree of A. M. conferred by Bowdoin College in Maine. LIbrary has a file on him.

Pictures of Brigadier General Scammon are available.

USMA 9th in 1837

Captured by guerillas February 3, 1864

Died December 7, 1894 New York NY

Buried Calvary Cemetery Long Island City NY

References:

http://home.ptd.net/~nikki/usagen5.htm

Arney, Chris, West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists, 2002.

Page begun, January 2001.