Charles Darwin Scott, Inventor

[Deneh]

Charles D. Scott was the inventor of the Climax Locomotive. This thread contains information about the inventor that is pertinent to the development of the Climax Engine, but not necessary the locomotive itself.

 

[Deneh]

Charles Darwin Obituary is listed on the Find A Grave Website. Here is a link to the pertinent information of his life and his suicide. Sad ending to a storied man.

Charles Darwin Scott (1828-1912) - Find a Grave...

CORRY INVENTOR A SUICIDE - Charles D Scott, Inventor of the Climax Locomotive, Hanged Himself in His Barn at Sanford, Pa, Saturday - Charles D Scott, aged 84 years, committed suicide at his home at Sanford, Warren county, Saturday, by hanging himself in his barn. It was during the temporary...

www.findagrave.com

 

[Deneh]

Honorable Charles Darwin Scott in later life. Source is from Ancestry.com

 

[Deneh]

Earlier picture of Charles Scott

Picture sourced from Ancestry.com

 

[Deneh]

Rush Sobieski Battles​

Owner of the Climax Mfg. Company. He purchase the company in 1883 and is known for being a farmer, business owner and later a banker.
Picture was sourced from Ancestry.com

 

[Deneh]

An ancestorial search to find George DeWitt Gilbert ends up being hard to tack down and information is limited. Record show that he was a civil engineer who lived in Corry, Pennsylvania his entire life. He was a farmer and had helped design a steam threshing machine. He was married to Cora M. Gates, a daughter of Panama E. Gates (nee Briggs). Panama's second marriage was Charles D. Scott, the inventor of the Climax Locomotive. So that relationship of George D. Gilbert to Charles D Scott would have been his stepdaughter's husband. His pictures are below.
Sources are Ancestry.com public files.