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educated in the public schools of Pound-
ridge, and was employed by his father,
driving through the country selling teas,
coffees, spices, drugs and light groceries.
Some of the lines were manufactured by
his father and sold at wholesale and re-
tail. At the age of seventeen he bought
his time from his father and continued in
the same line of business on his own ac-
count. After his marriage, in 1889, ne
removed to Norwalk, Connecticut, where
he formed a partnership with his brotherin-law
under the firm name of F. S. Byx-
bee & Company. They manufactured ex-
tracts for the wholesale trade, and about a
year later Mr. Scofield bought out the
drug part of the business and built a
laboratory on Henry street, where he car-
ried on business in wholesale grocers' and
confectioners' sundries for about two
years. After disposing of his interests in
this line, he purchased a tenth interest in
the firm of S. T. Willetts & Company, of
New York City, and continued in their
New York store until 1895. ^ n tne latter
year he accepted a position with D. Os-
born & Company, of Newark, New Jersey,
as a salesman, and remained with
them three years. In 1898 he purchased
a place on Highland avenue, Poundridge,
and started a factory for the manufactur-
ing of handmade splint baskets, employing
about one hundred and fifty men. He
also buys and sells lines of baskets he
does not make, and in this manner is pre-
pared at all times to take care of his large
trade. The business is wholesale and the
product is entirely made by hand labor,
consisting of oyster, ice, coal and mill
baskets. He also deals in farmers' and
grocers' baskets, and ships all over Amer-
ica and to England as well.
Mr. Scofield is a Republican, and was
commissioner of the town of Poundridge
for about six years. He was town super-
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intendent of highways for six years, and
has also held the office of county commit-
teeman. Mr. Scofield has often served as
a delegate to county and State conventions.
He is a member of Harmony
Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, of New Canaan ;
Wooster
Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
that town, and of the Sons of Veterans
there. Mr. Scofield organized a Fife and
Drum Corps at Long Ridge, Connecticut,
for the Harrison campaign for president,
and this corps was kept busy in several
subsequent campaigns.
Mr. Scofield married Lucy Monroe
Byxbee, daughter of Moses James Byxbee,
and granddaughter of Captain James
Byxbee, of Norwalk. They are the par-
ents of two children: 1. Marjorie A., a
member of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution through her Byxbee an-
cestry, and a teacher of violin with studio
in New Canaan. Formerly, Miss Scofield
taught in Grade VI of Center School,
New Canaan. 2. Dorothy F., now de-
ceased. Mrs. Scofield is a member of St.
Mark's Episcopal Church, of New Canaan.
RAYMOND, William H., Jr.,
Fire Insurance Special Agent and Adjuster.
The insurance interests of Connecticut
have no more aggressive representative
than they possess in the citizen whose
name heads this article. Mr. Raymond is
active in the business community, and is
well known in its social circles.
The name Raymond is of very ancient
French origin, being derived from two
French words, ra'i, signifying a beam of
light, and mondc, meaning world. The
Latin word, raimundus, is its exact equiv-
alent.
The Raymond family is very ancient,
including in its history many generations