Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-03-10

| was agreeable to nfrn.
| When in the employ of Babcock &
| Morse, Rouse Babcock and Jesse L.
Morse, owners of the mills in White
Rock the Main street mills. and the
mills in Stillmanville, on the Westerly
side of the Pawcatuck river Mr. Still
man invented several i'm prOvements on
looms of great value There came a
| time when Rouse Babcoclk told Mr..
| Scholfield that in order TO manufac-
| ture a certain grade of goods for
would have to be equipped with new
, looms. Mr.. ,Scholfield was then boss
weaver, and said he believed he could
alter the old looms and manufacture
the goods He made changes and addi-
lions in one loom, and the test was so
satisfactory that all the looms were
(changed. For seventeen years there
after these looms were operated as a
big profit, amassing a fortune for the
mill owners. while Mr.. Scholfield re-
ceived only his regular wages.
Mr.. Scholfield has two brothers in
Montville, Charles, who is SO, and Ben
jamin, SO, making the aggregate ages
of the three Scheduled brothers 272
years. Edwin A. Scholfield has living
by his first wife two sons, Everett A.
Scholfield of Mystic and New London,
Addison A. Scholfield of Westerly, and
Miss Alice C. Scholfield, their half
sister.
Charles Scholfeld, the oldest living
member of the family, happened to be
stood talking with his brother, Edwin
A, in front of the Washington Trust
company, when a trolley car on the
Norwich westerly road came along.
He said, hurriedly: Goodbye, Ed; j
must skip and get back to Montville in
time to attend my birthday party this
evening"" And he ran, caught and
boarded the moving car in as lively a
way as a brake could jump moving
freight train
John Scholfield. the grandfather of
the Three Scheduled Boys arrived in
Boston from Liverpool, England, in
and six children. and his brother, Ar
thur Scholfeld The brothers began the
construction of machinery for the
manufacture of wooden goods, being
manufacturing such goods in England.
With the aid of persons of wealth, a
factory was built in Byfieldnea New
burport, under the supervision of the
Scholfie1d. brothers, and here was put
in operation the first carding machine
that proved successful in the United
States. This machine was first oper-
ated by hand at Charlestown, before
removing to Byfield. The business was
prosperous> satisfactory to the project
orS, and John Scholfield was employed
as agent of the mill.
After five years of success in Byfield,
and in their travels to purchase wool
and sell their cloth, they became IA
milliar with the country and were de-
sirous of extending their business. On
one of his trips John Scholfield discov-
cred the valuable water facilities at
Montville, near the outlet of the Oxo-
boxo stream, and leased the privileges
for fourteen years. The brothers clos
ed out their business at Byfeld and
removed to Montville and established
the first wooden mill in Connecticut.
Arthur Scholfield continued with his
brother John in Montville for a few
years and then removed to Pittsfield,
Mass.
John Schilf1eld purchased another
mill privilege at Stonington (Sti1lman-
ville) and commenced the wooden BUSH
ness there, leaving the mill. at Mont
vile with his sons. In 1914 he pur-
chased another mill site in Montville
and removed there, leaving the Ston-
ington mill with his son Joseph, father
of Charles Edwin and Benjamin, the
present Scheduled brothers. John
Scholffeld afterwards bought mill In
Waterford, which was managed by
his son Thomas. John Scholfeld died
in MontviI1e in 1920, one year before
his grandson, Edwin A., now the old
est man in Westerly, was born