J. Scofield

SCOFIELD, JONES, MINOR

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/22/2004 at 20:57:16

J. Scofield, superintendent of the County Poor Farm, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1843. In 1845 the family migrated to JoDaviess county, Illinois, where the father died in 1846, leaving two children – Elizabeth, now Mrs. J. C. Jones, and Josiah, who is the subject of this sketch. He, when five years of age, went to live with one J. W. Marshall, and remained serving him as an errand boy about the store until sixteen years of age. He then worked two years on the C., B. & Q. R. R., after which, in 1861, he enlisted in Company F of the Twelfth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served nearly four years. He then returned to Illinois and engaged in farming. In 1866 he married Miss Mandania Minor, and in 1869 came to Iowa, and has since been a resident of Butler county, and since January 1, 1877, has had charge of the County Poor Farm. Mr. Scofield is a republican in politics, and a member of the Masonic fraternity. The children are – Mary, Charles, Nellie.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 605