SCRIBNER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: 1825–1900.
Benjamin Franklin Scribner , son of Abner Scribner (who, in 1813, with his brothers helped lay out the town of New Albany, Ind.), was born in that place on Sept. 20, 1825.
He served in the Mexican War in the Second Indiana Volunteers and during the Civil War was colonel of the 38th Indiana Volunteers, taking part in numerous campaigns, in one of which he was wounded in the leg. He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1864. He retired from service in that year because of ill health.
In 1865 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Second Collecting District of Indiana, a position he held for six years. He was half-owner of a large drug house in New Albany but sold his interest to his partner in 1878 and established a drug brokerage office in New York City, which he gave up several months later to become U. S. treasury agent in Alaska.
He married Anna Martha Maginness on Dec. 20, 1849, and died in Louisville, Ky., in 1900.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I, and the New Albany Public Library.
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(Described in a literary article in the CINCINNATI GAZETTE for Dec. 7,
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