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SCHOFIELD, JOHN LOCKARD (1852-1927)

SCHOFIELD, JOHN LOCKARD, retail merchant; b. Blackville parish, 6 May 1852 (bap. 18 Oct 1852), s/o John Schofield and Mary J. Connors; m. 1st, 1877, Carcilla B. Sinclair, d/o Peter H. Sinclair and Maria Copp, of Whitneyville; d. Mar 1927.

John L. Schofield stated that he became a retail merchant in 1872. In 1876 he acquired the MacLaggan Bros business in Blackville, erected a new building, and advertised groceries and hardware for sale. In 1880 both his store and his home were lost to fire. He collected insurance and continued in business until 1883, when he experienced "reverses" and was forced to assign. He was later hired to manage a branch store at Blackville for Sutherland & Creaghan.

Schofield was a county councillor for a number of terms and a land commissioner for Blackville parish in the early 1880s. These facts were stressed in the Union Advocate in 1884 when it was reported that he had absconded with stolen horses and embezzled funds and was under arrest in Bangor, Me. The property concerned belonged to his former employers, and John D. Creaghan went to Bangor to establish their claim to it. An out-of-court settlement was reached, and Schofield continued on his way to Pennsylvania, finding a job in the lumber woods. He later worked at lumbering and mining sites in Kentucky, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, and elsewhere in the United States and became a labor organizer and political activist. His whereabouts and opinions were revealed from time to time in letters which he wrote to the Advocate.

In 1907 Schofield settled in Montana, where he became a large land holder and a respected public figure. In 1921 he was elected to the state legislature on a Republican ticket, and in 1925 he was appointed to the Montana State Senate. The year before he died 'Senator Schofield' made a well-publicized visit to the Miramichi, accompanied by his wife. This was not his first wife, Carcilla B. Sinclair, however, because she died in 1902, of pneumonia.

Sources

[b] Arbuckle [m] Advance 25 Jan 1877 [d] Leader 18 Mar 1927 / Advance 22 Jul 1880, 3 Nov 1892; Advocate 12 Apr 1876, 11 Apr 1877 (ad), 13 Feb 1884, 16 May 1888, 21 Nov 1900, 12 Nov 1902, 1 Feb 1905, 6 Feb 1907; Leader 29 Oct 1906; Waldron; World 16 Feb 1884


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