BORN IN: Vermont
DIED: 1/13/1881
AGED: 61
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City
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CURRENT EVENTS:- 1831 Reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
- 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
- 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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OBITUARY ---------------HERMAN AMBROSE SCOFIELD
Herman Ambrose Scofield was born in Vermont, Nov. 25, 1819. He came to California in the spring of 1850, first as a miner in Placer County, then as a budding attorney in Folsom. He came to Redwood City in 1859 and opened an office on the northwest corner of Broadway and Hamilton, next door to the printing establishment in the new building erected by James W. Turner for the Odd Fellows.
The downstairs part was fixed up for job printing and the teams of David Downer and Charles Nelson Fox ran the Newspaper. On Dec 26, 1864, Charles Fox transferred his interests to his brother George W Fox.
On January 1, 1868, the San Mateo Gazette had new owners, Herman A. Scofield and Albert T Warren. In 1868, Warren and Scofield bought the I00F building and the offices were moved upstairs (printing).
Scofied had been elected District Attorney, 1863-1865. After July 1871, he sold the “San Mateo County Gazette” and had law offices in San Francisco and Oakland, then returned to Redwood City in 1875. He died here January 13, 1881.
Also buried in Plot 53: Willie Scofield — age 5 born at Folsom, Calif-died Dec 21, 1863 Emma E. Scofield — age 9 born at Auburn, Calif died Dec 23, 1863 Ludy Ann Scofield . age 45 born in Vermont died Dec Il, 1867
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