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Mr. and Mrs. Schupp became the parents of the following children : Philip, who was born in Germany, November 24, 1870; Carolina, who was born January 20, 1872; and Ida, who was born at Nauvoo, May 7, 1888, was married on May 7, 1907, to James Edward Foster, a son of John William and Matilda ( Hibberd) Foster, born at Chicago, Ill., November 25, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Foster have four children, namely : Saloma M., who was born April 6, 1908; Mad- eline C., who was born April 12, 1909; Leona, who was born August 20, 1911; and Harry Philip, who was born December 14, 1913.
SCHWANKE, Charles F., assistant cashier of the Tri-County State Bank of Plymouth, and one of the reliable business men of this section, stands high in public favor. He was born in Adams County, Ill., one of the six children born to his parents, Augustus C. and Ella (Eggen) Schwanke. Augustus C. Schwanke was born in Germany, where he learned the trade of shoe- making. Early in the fifties, he came to the United States and located in Adams County, Ill., where he died in 1890, the mother surviv- ing him until 1897.
Charles F. Schwanke attended the common and high schools of his native county, and for two years was engaged in teaching school, and then learning telegraphy, he was employed by several railroads until he formed his present connection with the Tri-County State Bank, in October, 1917. A man of systematic methods and good habits, he is a desirable addition to the working force of the bank.
Mr. Schwanke was married to Miss Lula Workman, a daughter of John Workman, of Augusta, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Schwanke have two children, namely : Paul W., and Orrin F. The family belong to the Lutheran Church. Mr. Schwanke is a member of the Modern Wood-
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men of America. In politics he is a Repub- lican.
SCOFIELD, Judge Charles J., was born at Carthage, Illinois, on December 25, 1853. When but little more than three years of age, his father died, and thereafter he and his brother, then a babe of ten months, were taken by their mother to the home of her parents, Harrison and Alice Crawford, with whom they lived on the farm about one mile south of Carthage until the spring of 1869. During his boyhood, Mr. Scofield attended the public school of Carthage. In September, 1868, he was sent by his mother to Canton, Missouri, to become a matriculate in what was then known as Christian University, but is known at the present time as Culver- Stockton College. Mr. Scofield took the classi- cal course, as it was then called. He was at the university' three years, receiving at the expiration of his course the degree A. B. This was in June. 1871. He received the degree A. M. from the same institution in June, 1874.
On May 9, 1871, Mrs. Scofield and her two sons moved on the premises in Carthage where Judge Scofield now resides, and where he has lived since that date.
In September, 1871, Mr. Scofield became high school teacher in the Carthage public school, of which Mr. John T. Illick was principal or superintendent, and continued teaching for three years, reading law, in the meantime, as opportunity afforded, under the instruction of his uncle, Bryant T. Scofield, Mr. (afterwards Judge) William C. Hooker, and Judge George Edmunds, who were officing together during those years, although they were not, in fact, partners.
Mr. Scofield was admitted to the bar of this state on June 4, 1875, and began at once the practice of his profession. At the October term, 1875, of the Circuit Court of this county, he was appointed Master in Chancery, an office which he held from that time until he became judge of the Circuit Court in June, 1885.
At first, Mr. Scofield officed with Mr. William E. Mason (state's attorney ), although they were not partners. Afterwards, in February, 1879, he entered into partnership with Henry W. Draper, under the firm name of Draper and Sco- field. Mr. Draper was a very able lawyer, and then in the maturity of his powers. This part- nership continued until July 8, 1881, upon which day Mr. Draper died at Denver, Colorado, where he had gone for the transaction of certain busi- ness pertaining to the estate of Bryant T. Sco- field, who had died on March 19, 1881.
A few weeks after Mr. Draper's death, Mr. Scofield formed a partnership with his brother, Timothy J. Scofield, now of Chicago, Illinois, and these two, under the firm name of Scofield and Scofield. practiced law in Hancock County until the fall of 1884, when a partnership was formed by them with Apollos W. O'Harra, who had read law with Mr. Scofield a few years before. The new firm was known as Scofield, O'Harra and Scofield. This partnership was of
brief duration, for in the following spring Mr. Scofield became a candidate for judge in what was then the 6th Judicial Circuit, embracing the counties of Hancock, Adams, Pike, McDon- ough, Schuyler, Brown and Fulton. Among the ardent supporters of Mr. Scofield in his can- didacy were his partners (his brother and. Mr. O'Harra), Mr. William E. Mason, and George A. Anderson, a prominent young attorney of Quincy. The three judges elected in June, 1885, were William Marsh of Quincy, John C. Bagby of Rushville, and Charles J. Scofield of this county.
Upon the election of Mr. Scofield as judge, his brother and Mr. O'Harra continued to practice law in this and adjoining counties, under the firm name of O'Harra and Scofield.
At the end of his first term as judge of the Circuit Court, Judge Scofield was re-elected for another term, thus holding that office for a period of twelve years, his tenure thereof end- ing in June, 1897.
In the summer of 1893, Judge Scofield was appointed one of the judges of the Appellate Court of Illinois for the 4th District, holding its sessions twice a year at Mt. Vernon in the southern part of the state. He filled out the unexpired term of Justice Jesse J. Phillips, as Appellate Court Judge. At the end of this term, and in June, 1894, Judge Scofield was re-ap- pointed Appellate Judge for the term of three years, which term ended when his second term as Circuit Judge terminated.
The General Assembly in the early part of 1897 re-districted the state, forming new judi- cial circuits, and placing Hancock County in the new 9th judicial circuit, with McDonough, Fulton, Knox, Warren and Henderson. The new circuit was strongly republican, and Judge Sco- field, although nominated by the democratic party, declined the candidacy, deeming the elec- tion of a democrat in the new circuit as prac- tically impossible.
After his retirement from the bench, Judge Scofield resumed the practice of the law at Car- thage, Illinois, first, in partnership with Mr. O'Harra and his brother, Timothy J. Scofield, then residing at Chicago, under the old firm name of Scofield, O'Harra and Scofield. This partnership was dissolved about February, 1899, after which Judge Scofield formed a partner- ship with Mr. Argyll J. McMahan, under the firm name of Scofield and McMahan, this part- nership being continued until Mr. McMahan left Illinois. For some years Judge Scofield prac- ticed alone. In the spring of 1909 he formed a partnership with Mr. J. Paul Califf, a promising young attorney, who had read law in his office, and this partnership has continued to the pres- ent time, interrupted by the addition for brief periods of other lawyers to the firm, but with- out change as far as Judge Scofield and Mr. Califf are concerned. For a short time Mr. George V. Helfrich of Bushnell was associated with this firm; later Mr. William H. Hartzell, a prominent Carthage lawyer ; and for a short time Mr. Hartzell, Mr. Bert M. Cavanagh and
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Mr. Edward S. Martin were included. This firm was dissolved in September, 1920, and two new firms resulted by rearrangement after such dis- solution. Franklin M. Hartzell, oldest son of William HI. Hartzell, had been admitted to the bar, and in December, 1920, Earl N. Bell of Carthage was admitted to the bar. These two young men had read law in the offices of the old firm. The firms as now constituted are, Sco- field, Califf and Bell, with offices in the Spitler Block, and Hartzell, Cavanagh, Martin and Hartzell, with offices in the Marine Trust Com- pany building.
During his career in his profession, Judge Scofield has enjoyed a wide association with eminent lawyers in other counties and states and in many courts in important business trans- actions and litigation.
The degree of LL.D. has been conferred on him by Christian University, now Culver-Stockton College, of Canton, Missouri, and by Eureka Col- lege of Eureka, Illinois.
In 1912, Judge Scofield was elected one of the Wilson electors in Illinois, and had the pleasure of voting for this distinguished American for President.
When the United States entered into the World War in 1917, Judge Scofield was ap- pointed one of the members of the Local Board of Hancock County. The other members were Mr. Philip Dallam of Warsaw and Dr. S. M. Parr of Carthage. Mr. Dallam was elected chairman, and Judge, Scofield secretary. The arduous service incident to this position con- tinued from the early part of July, 1917, until the spring of 1919. It is a matter of congratu- lation to the citizens of Hancock County that, in the lists of deserters now being published, there is not a single name from Hancock County.
During his career, Judge Scofield has done meritorious work of a literary character, having published two volumes of fiction entitled re- spectively "A Subtle Adversary" and "Altar Stairs." He has also had editorial charge of this History of Hancock County.
Judge Scofield has delivered numerous lec- tures and addresses in many localities, and is still active in this line of work as well as in the practice of the law.
In order to help along a weak church of the Disciples at Carthage, Judge Scofield acted as pastor of the congregation for about twenty years, during which time a small membership was greatly increased, and the congregation as- sumed its equal standing among the other churches of the community. Throughout this time Judge Scofield earned his living, part of the time as a member of the judiciary and part of the time in the practice of his profession as an attorney, accepting no compensation for his services in the pulpit, any remuneration received being applied to the work of the congregation, either in the erection of a church-building, or in some other department of the congregation's activities.
On September 12, 1876, Judge Scofield was married to Miss Rose Spitler, and since their
marriage they have resided in Carthage, Illinois, on the premises where Judge Scofield had been living since 1871. Mrs. Scofield was born at Tioga in Hancock County, on January 24, 1858. Orphaned at a tender age she was soon received as a foster-daughter into the home of Dr. and Mrs. Adam Spitler at Carthage, Illinois, who bestowed on her that wealth of yearning affec- tion which so often characterizes the hearts of the childless.
Dr. Spitler was born at Buckhannon, West Virginia, on October 19, 1816, and Mrs. Carrie A. Janney Spitler at East Nottingham, Mary- land, on August 22, 1825. They were married on July 1, 1851, and moved to Carthage on May 8, 1857. Their lives were dominated by the high- est ideals and the influence of their home was beneficent and far-reaching. After years> of service to mankind the Doctor was called up higher on June 21, 1890, Mrs. Spitler lingering to bless the lives of those whom she had be- friended until the glad summons came to her also on October 2, 1911.
So truly was the affection of her foster- parents reciprocated that Mrs. Scofield has given little attention to tracing records of her own blood-ancestry. However a casual investigation seems to justify the family traditions relative to ties of consanguinity with men of note in national history.
Iler mother, Mardisha Allen, born May 8, 1835, was a daughter of Robert Scott Allen who was born May 28, 1797, living at Covington, Kentucky, where as a very young boy he en- listed for his Country's service in the War of 1812, and her great-grandfather, John Watson Allen, was associated in many youthful exploits with his kinsman Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga.
Mrs. Scofield's father, John Nash, was born at Gerry, Chautauqua County. New York, on February 9, 1830, living in youth only eight or ten miles distant from the boyhood home of Judge Scofield's father. The Nash family achieved distinction during the Revolutionary War, the most cherished memory being that of the gallant General Francis Nash who fell in the battle of Germantown. and after whom the city of Nashville, Tennessee, was named. .
For two years Mrs. Scofield was a pupil of Judge Scofield in Carthage High School. She then matriculated in Carthage College from which institution she was graduated on May 4, 1876, receiving in due course the degrees A. B. and A. M. She has been active in church work, having particularly served the cause of the local auxiliary of the Christian Woman's Board of Missions of the Carthage Christian Church, serving as Treasurer for a period of fifteen years, and has been an active member of the Carthage Woman's Club from its beginning in 1896. She was one of the charter members of this organization and its first president, and has recently been re-elected to the presidency for the year 1921-2. As a young girl she was organist of the M. E. Church of Carthage, of which she was a member. After marriage her
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membership was transferred to the Christian Church. Until recently, she was for many years the organist of this church, showing marked ability in the interpretation of sacred music. In literature and art she has exhibited an exact, correct and discriminating taste and judgment. She has written occasional articles for local publication, and private circulation, most of which have been published anonymously.
Judge Scofield holds membership in the fra- ternal orders of I. O. O. F. and K. P., and both he and Mrs. Scofield are members of the Re- bekah Lodge.
The father of Judge Scofield was Charles Rollin Scofield, who was born at Dewittville, Chautauqua County, New York, on October 4, 1821. The old home is about five miles from the Chautauqua Assembly grounds. Charles Rollin Scofield taught school in New York, read- ing law in the meantime, and, in 1851, moved to Carthage, Illinois, whither his brother, Bryant T. Scofield, had preceded him. He was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1851. He was asso- ciated as a partner with his brother and with Mr. David Mack among the ablest of Hancock County lawyers at that time. Charles Rollin Scofield was married to Miss Elizabeth Craw- ford at Carthage on February 23, 1853. There were three children of this union, one of whom, named Harrison, died at the age of about six months. The other two are Judge Scofield and his brother Timothy of Chicago.
Judge Scofield's father died on January 9, 1857. The fall preceding his death he had pur- chased at Quincy Freeman's Digest of the First Fifteen Volumes of the Illinois Reports, and Purple's Statutes, which had just been pub- lished. At the present time there are nearly 300 volumes of the Illinois Supreme Court Re- ports and more than 200 volumes of the Deci- sions of the Appellate Court.
Judge Scofield's grandparents on the Scofield side were Darius and Sarah Scofield. The maid- en name of Sarah Scofield was Glenny. She was born at or near Newry, Ireland, being from the Ulster Province.
The Scofield family came from County Kent, England. One of the ancestors was knighted for distinguished services when the Spanish Ar- mada threatened England. The ancestors of the American branch of the family came to Connecticut at an early day, about 1639, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," and from that locality their descendants have moved into other parts of the country, some of them spelling the name with an "h," others without it, and some having dropped both the "c" and the "h," but all be- louging to the same family, though widely separated, and related, in many cases, in a most remote degree. The ancient method of spelling the name was as Judge Scofield spells it. +
The great-grandfather of Judge Scofield, Seely Scofield, when eighteen years of age, and in the vear 1776, entered the Continental Army in the American Revolution and continued in the serv- ice without interruption for about six years,
six months and eight days, and until the termi- nation of the war.
Judge Scofield's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Sco- field, was born in Kentucky on September 18, 1834. She came to Carthage with her parents, brothers and sister in 1850, and was married to Charles Rollin Scofield on February 23, 1853. She was one of the charter members of the Christian or Disciples Church of Carthage, which was organized on April 13, 1864, and con- tinued her labors in that congregation until her death, which occurred on May 27, 1877. She was a most devoted mother, never leaving her children in their early boyhood for a single night. She gave them every opportunity of education which it was within her power to confer. She was beloved by everybody who knew her, because of her Christian graces and ministrations to those needing assistance or en- couragement, and any worthy qualities in her two sons are to be attributed to her training and influence. She was beautiful in person, gracious and dignified in manner, a model of Christian womanhood and motherhood.
Judge Scofield's mother was very much like her own mother, Mrs. Alice Crawford, in dis- position and temperament. Mrs. Crawford was a splendid character. She was born in Ken- tucky in 1807, and died at Carthage on April 23, 1865. Her maiden name was Thompson.
Mrs. Eliza Taylor, who was the mother of Mr. Harrison Taylor and Mr. Charles W. Taylor and other children, formerly well-known in Carthage, was a sister of Mrs. Crawford. Her only brother, Stephen Thompson, lived at Car- thage in the early fifties, married a splendid woman of the Wilson family, and moved to Texas, where some of his relatives are still living. The other children of Harrison and Alice Crawford, excepting one who died in in- fancy in Kentucky, were Dr. Josiah Joplin Crawford, who died at Carthage on November 23, 1856, Mrs. Margaret Hill, who died at Car- thage on September 3, 1907, and Mr. James B. Crawford, now living in that city.
Mr. Harrison Crawford was distantly related to the Crawfords who came with the parents of Andrew Jackson to the Carolinas in the early settlement of this country, one of whom was a brother-in-law of Andrew Jackson's father. This may be one of the reasons why Harrison Craw- ford was such an uncompromising Jackson democrat, voting for Jackson for president in 1828, without challenge, when he was only twenty years of age, and celebrating the Sth day of January, the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, with much fervor, until the time of his death. Harrison Crawford died at Car- thage, on December 11, 1870.
James B. Crawford, the only child of Har- rison and Alice Crawford now living, was born in Kentucky on March 9, 1836. He has resided in Carthage or vicinity since 1850. On April 1, 1858, he was married to Miss Josephine E. Davies of Carthage, then and now beloved of all acquaintances. On April 1, 1921, they cele- brated their 63d wedding anniversary. They
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have been blessed with nine children, of whom Joppa, Edith, James and Nellie have passed Beyond. Nellie's husband, Mr. Charles W. Patchin, died prior to her death. She left sur- viving her one splendid son, Gould Patchin. The five living children are: Mrs. Alice E. San- ford of Palo Alto, California, wife of Professor Fernando Sanford of Leland Stanford Univer- sity ; Mrs. Elizabeth H. Taylor, widow of Mr. Charles W. Taylor, who was a prominent Car- thage citizen ; Miss Evaline Crawford of Car- thage; Dr. Edward C. Crawford of Oshkosh, Wisconsin who married Mrs. Elnora Morgan Rounds; and Mrs. Josephine E. Cole of Ma- comb, Illinois, wife of Rev. Addison L. Cole.
Judge Scofield is a man of broad culture with a decided taste for antiquarian research-the satisfying of which has compensated in some slight degree for the gratuitous labor connected with the editing of this History of Hancock County.
A genial personality coupled with exceptional talent as a raconteur have distinguished him in social circles.
But his pet hobby is the acquisition of books and he possesses a large and valuable private collection which is being constantly augmented.
Since he is a man of unquenchable vitality his better half cherishes the opinion that should serene old age arrive it will be blissfully spent with a treasured book in a shady nook or by the leaping flames of his own fireside, undaunted by the vanishing of youthful vigor.
SCOFIELD, Timothy J., one of the prominent attorneys of the Chicago bar, who was for- merly engaged in the practice of his profession at Carthage, Quincy and Springfield, is spe- cializing in railroad corporation litigation, as a member of the able firm of Chicago lawyers known as Loesch, Scofield, Loesch and Rich- ards. He was born at Carthage, Illinois, March 20, 1856, a son of Charles Rollin and Elizabeth (Crawford) Scofield, and a brother of Judge Charles J. Scofield." Charles Rollin Scofield was one of the Hancock County attorneys in the early fifties. and was a distinguished lawyer and a prominent citizen of that day. A brief sketch of him appears in connection with the biographical sketch of Judge Scofield.
Growing up in the vicinity of Carthage and under the care of his mother and her parents (his father having died when he was an in- fant), Timothy J. Scofield enjoyed excellent educational advantages in his home town of Carthage, attending Carthage College and graduating on May 4, 1876, receiving the de- gree A. B., and later, the degree A. M. Fol- lowing his graduation he studied law and was admitted to the bar of this state, and since that time has devoted himself to the active practice of his profession.
At first he was associated in the practice of the law with J. J. Williams, youngest son of the Hon. Jesse C. Williams of Carthage.
In the summer of 1881 he entered into part- nership with his brother under the firm name
of Scofield and Scofield, to which firm was added Apollos W. O'Harra in the fall of 1884, the firm name being thereupon changed to Sco- field, O'Harra and Scofield. This partnership was dissolved as to Charles J. Scofield in June, 1885, when he was commissioned judge of the Circuit Court. Thereafter Timothy J. Scofield and Mr. O'Harra continued to be partners in the practice of the law until February, 1899, during part of which, period Mr. William H. Hartzell was a member of the firm. At the time of dissolution Judge Scofield was a member of the firm.
In 1891, Timothy J. Scofield moved to Quincy, and remained there in the practice of the law for two years, during which period he and Mr. O'Harra maintained offices both at Carthage and Quincy.
In 1893, Timothy J. Scofield was appointed first assistant attorney general of the state, and moved to Springfield. He served in that ca- pacity for the term of four years during which time the Hon. Maurice T. Moloney was attorney general.
In the latter part of the year 1896, Mr. Sco- field moved to Chicago, where he has remained ever since, actively engaged in the practice of the law. From 1897 to 1899, he was local attor- ney for the Chicago and Alton Railroad Com- pany. For a short time he was an assistant in the office of the city attorney, resigning that po- sition to take charge of the trial department of the Chicago Union Traction Company, at first as the chief assistant, later as the principal attorney in charge, which position he held from 1901 to 1906, when he voluntarily gave up this position to become a member of the firm with which he is now connected, being Loesch, Sco- field and Loesch, to which firm Mr. Richards was afterwards added.
While Mr. Scofield was in charge of the trial department of the Union Traction Company, there were from 1200 to 1400 personal injury cases pending against that company at any and every time. On an average three or four such cases were commenced every day. The trial business was reduced to system, and Mr. Sco- field's work in superintending and directing, as well as in the trial of the most difficult of the cases in court, was in all respects satisfactory to the company. Upon the organization of the firm of Loesch, Scofield and Loesch, now Loesch, Scofield, Loesch and Richards, these attorneys became the general attorneys for the Pennsyl- vania lines of railway, west of Pittsburgh, as well as of other corporations, and are still act- ing in that capacity.
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On October 31, 1877, Timothy J. Scofield was married at Carthage, Illinois, to Georgia A. Edmunds, a daughter of Judge George and Electa E. Edmunds. On July 29, 1914, Mrs. Scofield died suddenly at Detroit Harbor, Wis- consin, where she and her soul Junius were spending the summer. She left her husband surviving her, and their six children: Dr. Charles J. Scofield, Mrs. Jesse J. Boyle, Mrs. Cora K. Hand, Junius C. Scofield, Thomas E.
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