Background
Scoville, Samuel was born on June 9, 1872 in Norwich, New York, United States. Son of Samuel and Harriet E. (Beecher) Scoville.
Scoville, Samuel was born on June 9, 1872 in Norwich, New York, United States. Son of Samuel and Harriet E. (Beecher) Scoville.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1893. Bachelor of Laws, University of State of New York, 1895.
Admitted to New York bar, 1895. Member of law firm Beecher & Scoville, 1898. Admitted to Philadelphia bar, 1903, and since maintained principal office there.
Admitted to Supreme Court of the United States, 1910.
Trustee Wagner Institute.
Member council Boy Scouts of America. Member Law Association Philadelphia, Delaware Valley Ornithological. Club, New England Society of Pennsylvania (past president), Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Library Company of Philadelphia, Friends of Haverford College Library (past president), Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Clubs: Franklin Inn (honorary president), University, Triplets (Philadelphia).
Married Katharine Gallaudet Trumbull, October 17, 1899. Children: Samuel (deceased), Gurdon Trumbull, William Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher (deceased), Alice Trumbull (Mistress Stuyvesant Barry).