Scofield, Augustus

SCOFIELD, BARNARD, SPEAR, DEMMER, CROMER, HARBALD, BEMASTER, CLARK

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PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF CLINTON COUNTY, IOWA 1886 (CHAPMAN BROS.) 
Containing full page portraits & biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county. (Also available on FHL film 1036331 Item 9)
AUGUSTUS SCOFIELD. The subject of this biographical sketch is a retired farmer of Lyons and may be properly esteemed as one of its responsible and prominent citizens. He is a native of Sullivan County, N. Y., and was born Dec. 25, 1819, and is the son of Shadrach and Mary W. (Barnard) Scofield, both natives of Connecticut. The parents of Augustus Scofield came to New York and purchased a farm in Sullivan County of 128 acres. There they lived until called away by the great Destroyer. They had reared a family of nine children, all of whom lived to the age of man and womanhood. The subject
Of this history remained at home until he attained the age of twenty-two years, and received a common-school education, assisting his father in agricultural pursuits on the homestead. After launching out on the sea of life, he came to Clinton County, Iowa, and settled in Hampshire Township in 1850. He is thus one of the old settlers of this county. Purchasing 480 acres he built a house worth $600, and had the honor in those primitive times of owning the first painted house in the township. He was well adapted to farming, as he enjoyed cultivating the soil, and he went on improving 160 acres, and lived upon the property until 1881. He next came to the city of Lyons, retired from active business and settled permanently on the corner of Washington and Third streets. He has a fine brick house which stands on handsome grounds and is attractive and beautiful.

He was married in 1878, to Mrs. Spear, a native of New York, and the daughter of Christian and Annie (Demmer) Cromer. They were natives of New York, and had reared a family of twelve children, ten of whom still survive. By his first union Mrs. Scofield was the father of three children, as follows; Robert, Martha, and Hattie. Robert united in marriage with Elizabeth Harbald; Martha married Mr. Bemaster and they have one child—Wilfred. Mrs. Scofield had by her former husband, three children, all of whom survive; Mary L.; Ida M., now Mrs. Clark, who is the mother of one child—Effie I.; and Alden L. Mrs. Scofield came from Michigan in 1878, hailing from Berrien County, where she had lived since the age of ten years.

In politics Mrs. Scofield is Republican and is a strong upholder of his party. He is a most reliable and worthy citizen, and an esteemed and respected man.