J. Vine Hanscom, sawyer and justice of the peace, Sinnemahoning, was born in Hartland, Me., June 28, 1850, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Hamm) Hanscom, who located in Bradford county, Penn., in 1854, where the father (who is a farmer by occupation) still resides. Our subject was reared in Bradford county, and received a limited education in the common schools. He first located in Sinnemahoning in 1869, where for three years he held the position of sawyer in the mill of Barclay Brothers; then removed to Benezette, Elk Co., Penn., where he spent five years in the employ of Hall, Kaul & Co,; was afterward a resident of Lock Haven, Clinton County, Penn., several years, and returning to Sinnemahoning in 1885, he has here since been in the employ of Barclay Brothers as a sawyer. In 1876 Mr. Hanscom married Maggie A., daughter of Andrew and Margaret (Housel) Kline, of Williamsport, Penn., and has five children: Frank H., Jennie V., Ethel L., Jessie P. and Fred. Mr. Hanscom was elected justice of the peace for Grove township in 1888. Politically he is a Republican.

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