George Scanlon
1893-1969. Mercy Hospital surgeon, “powerful personality,” steered the hospital through an extensive 1949 expansion fronting on Van Buren Street, which provided long-lasting object lessons for repeated future expansions that created the modern facility. His medical offices at 222 Dey Building at the Clinton Street/Iowa Avenue intersection downtown were, for decades, also a local business center. His entrepreneurial activity originated in his 1928 purchase with a brother of the local water works, sold in 1961 to city government in decrepit condition for $1.6 million. The Oxford native also served St. Mary’s School (local) and St. Ambrose College (Davenport) boards.