"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Chapman 
Publishing Company, 1903.

Pleasant Marion SCROGGIN

	Connected with the banking business of Lebanon, Linn county, Ore., Mr. 
SCROGGIN is lending himself heartily to the forward march of the enterprises 
of this city in a way which has thoroughly won the commendation of his fellow 
townsmen. In 1899 he established the banking firm of P.M. SCROGGIN & Co., with 
a capital of $25,000 and a surplus of $5,000. His able management has since 
advanced it among the business enterprises of Linn county until it ranks first 
with institutions of like character. His energetic yet conservative methods 
have proven his executive ability and clear judgement, and there is every 
prospect of a steady advancement and a gratifying success in the many years of 
life which, in all probability, Mr. SCROGGIN has before him.
	Pleasant Marion SCROGGIN was born near Sheridan, Yamhill county, Ore., 
May 9, 1872, the son of P.M. SCROGGIN. The latter was born in Logan county, 
Ill., in 1830, and on attaining manhood he followed the life an agriculturist, 
to which he had early been trained. From Mount Pulaski, Ill., he removed to 
Iowa, and from that state emigrated about 1863 to Oregon, settling first near 
McMinnville and later near Sheridan, where he became the owner of a thousand 
acres adjoining the city on the south. He died there April 18, 1894, at the 
age of sixty-four years. As a Democrat he had been popular in his own party, 
and had served for two terms as county commissioner. He was married in Iowa to 
Sarah HOWARD, at native of that state, who crossed the plains with her husband 
and died in the same in which the latter's death occurred. Of the eight 
children who are now living P.M. SCROGGIN is the eighth in order of birth, and 
received his preliminary education in the common schools of Oregon, after 
which he attended the Portland Business College for one year graduating in 
1894 in the banking and business course. In the same year he engaged in the 
hardware business in Sheridan, the next year finding him in Lebanon in his 
present business enterprise.
	The marriage of Mr. SCROGGIN occurred in Ashland, Ore., and united him 
with Lydia W. WASHBURN, a native of Iowa. Two children now add to the 
happiness of the home, namely: Seymour Ralph and La Verne. Mr. SCROGGIN is a 
member of the Christian Church, and politically he adheres to the principles 
advocated in the platform of the Republican party.

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