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Scammon was born on July 27, 1812 in Whitefield, Maine, United States, the son of Eliakim and Joanna (Young) Scammon.
With a farmer's life in prospect, the boy's future was suddenly changed by the loss of two fingers on his left hand. Since he was thus handicapped in the farmer's important business of milking cows, his parents decided to equip him for a profession.
Jonathan Young prepared for college and at eighteen entered Waterville (now Colby) College, but left at the end of his first year, probably for lack of means. He studied law in a law office in Hallowell.
Scammon was admitted to the bar in 1835. Fired by enthusiastic reports of the rapid development of the Mississippi Valley, he started west and, not expecting to settle there, arrived in Chicago in September 1835. Not being greatly impressed with the town, he was preparing to move on when the temporary job of deputy clerk in the circuit court was offered him. He accepted, and Chicago became his home for the remaining fifty-five years of his life.
Admitted to the Illinois bar he rapidly won a place of prominence and leadership. Appointed as reporter of the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1839 he compiled four volumes of its reports, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois (copr. 1840 - copr. 1844). For years he was a member of the board of education and president from 1845 to 1848.
He was delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864 and 1872. He served as state senator in 1861. Throughout his career he was interested in newspaper publishing, in 1844 launching the Chicago Journal on its long career.
Later he became actively interested in banking, insurance, and railroads. He developed the Chicago Fire and Marine Insurance Company, of which also he was president in 1849.
Financial reverses were, however, encountered: temporary in 1857, when, during the panic of that year, his bank failed while he himself was absent in Europe with his family, irreparable in 1874, when the conflagration of 1871, the panic of 1873, and a second devastating fire a year later combined to give him a series of blows from which he never financially recovered.
He died in Chicago.
Jonathan Young Scammon established the Marine Bank in Chicago and the Mechanics National Bank, serving as president of each. Besides, he had a prominent part in the development of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Company and was instrumental in bringing the Michigan Central Railroad into Chicago. He, probably, more than anyone else, was responsible for the establishment of free schools in Chicago. Scammon founded the Chicago's first newspaper, the Chicago Journal. His name is perpetuated in the new University of Chicago by "Scammon Court" in the School of Education quadrangle.
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In religion Scammon was a Swedenborgian, very zealous and prominent for years in the national activities of the New Jerusalem Church.
In his early years Jonathan Young was a Whig and later a Republican.
Scammon was a member of the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago Astronomical Society and others.
Scammon was married twice: first in 1837 to Mary Ann Haven Dearborn, of Bath, Maine, who died in 1858, and second, in 1867 to Mrs. Maria (Sheldon) Wright, of Delaware County, New York.
