Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Scofield, Edward  
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Source: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson
Author: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897

STATE OFFICERS.

Terms of office expire first Monday of January, 1899

GOVERNOR.

EDWARD SCOFIELD (Rep.), of Oconto, was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, 
March 28, 1842; received a common school education and is by occupation a 
lumberman; came to Wisconsin in 1868, and settled at Oconto; enlisted in Co. K, 
11th Pa. Reserves, June 7, 1861; he was successfully promoted to corporal and 
sergeant, and April 15, 1863, to 1st lieutenant; after the battle of South 
Mountain he was commissioned captain; he participated in all the battles and 
marches of his regiment up to the battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, where 
he was taken prisoner; he was reported dead and his friends mourned him, and 
thus he was permitted to read his own obituary; he was a prisoner ten months, 
during which time he was incarcerated in twelve different southern prisons; he 
was released at Wilmington, N. C., March 1, 1865; March 13 1865, he was 
brevetted major. Since the war he has been engaged with the engineer corps of 
the A. & G. W. R. R., and is now a member of the Scofield & Arnold Lumber Co. 
He was elected state senator for the First Senate district in 1886 for four 
years, receiving 6,177 votes, against 5,919 votes for Amos Holgate, democrat; 
was chairman of the committee on engrossed bills in the 38th session; he was 
elected governor in 1896, receiving 264,981 votes (the largest number ever cast 
for a candidate for governor in Wisconsin), against 169,257 votes for Willis C. 
Silver- thorn, democrat; 8,140 votes for Joshua H. Berkey, prohibitionist; 
1,306 votes for Christ Tuttrop, socialistic labor, and 407 votes for Robert 
Henderson, nationalist. Scattering, 16.


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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