Scranton, capital of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, on the Lackawanna River, 144 m. NW. of New York; does a large trade in coal, and is the centre of a busy steel, iron, and machinery industry.
Population (circa 1900) given as 102,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Scott, William Bell * Scribe, Eugene