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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (Scnui/rz SEARLES.) 



Schultz, Jackson S., manufacturer, born in Hyde 

 Park. N. Y., Nov. 9, 1815 ', died in New York city, 

 March 1, 1891. He was the son of a tanner, with 

 whom he learned the trade, and early in life became 

 a clerk in the leather house of Smith, Schultz & Co., 

 New York city, of which his father was a partner. 

 In 1838 this 'firm was dissolved; and 'after young 

 Schultz had conducted the business alone for a year, 

 he organized the firm of Young & Schultz, which 

 continued in that form till 1854, when a third mem- 

 ber was admitted, and the name became Young, 

 Schultz & Co. Further changes were made in 1857 

 and 1867, the firm becoming Schultz, Southwick & 

 Co in the latter year and remaining so till 1884, 

 when Mr. Schultz retired, and the firm of Schultz, 

 Innes & Co. was formed. Mr. Schultz always took a 

 keen interest in the public affairs of the city, but it 

 was in the movement that resulted in the exposure 

 of the Tweed ring and the arrest and successful pros- 

 ecution of William M. Tweed that he particularly 

 earned the thanks of the community. He was a 

 member of the Committee of Seventy which was ap- 

 pointed in September, 1871, and which, after the ring 

 exposure, reported a reform charter for the city ; and, 

 later, he was conspicuous in the agitation of New 

 York merchants against the moiety system of the 

 Federal Government enforced against the importers. 

 In 1873 he was appointed United States Commis- 

 sioner to the World's Exhibition in Vienna. He 

 discovered or invented many improvements in the art 

 of tanning, and he also published a work on the his- 

 tory and art of that industry. 



Scofield, Glenni William, jurist, born in Chautauqua 

 County, N. Y., March 11, 1817; died in Warren, Pa., 

 Aug. 3*0, 1891. He was graduated at Hamilton Col- 



State Senate, and in 1861 was appointed president 

 judge of the 18th Judicial District of the State. lie was 

 elected to Congress from the 19th Pennsylvania Dis- 

 trict as a Republican in 1862, and was re-elected five 

 consecutive times. There he was chairman of the 

 standing Committee on Naval Affairs and of the se- 

 lect committee to investigate the legislative troubles 

 in Louisiana. In the latter part of his congressional 

 service his name was unfavorably connected with the 

 Credit Mobilier scandal. In March, 187$, he was ap- 

 pointed Register of the Treasury, and he held the 

 office till 1881, when he was appointed a judge of the 

 United States Court of Claims. He retired from his 

 last office a few weeks before his death. 



Scott, William Lawrence, capitalist, born in Wash- 

 ington, 1). C., July 2, 1828 ; died in Newport, R. I., 

 Sept. 19, 1891. He received a common-school educa- 

 tion, and when twelve years old was appointed a 

 Eage in the national House of Representatives, where 

 e served for six years. Near the close of his last 

 term he attracted the attention of Representative 

 Reed, then engaged in the lake trade at Erie, Pa., 

 who gave him a place as clerk in his shipping office. 

 In 1850 he engaged in the coal and shipping business 

 on his own account, soon afterward bought and ran 

 several vessels on the Great Lakes, and subsequently, 

 becoming interested in coal mining, iron manufactui'- 

 ing, and railroad operations, attained large wealth. 

 At one time he was president or director of railroad 

 companies owning or controlling more than 22,000 

 miles of completed road, and was the confidential 

 manager of many enterprises in which Samuel J. 

 Tilclen was interested. At the beginning of the civil 

 war he organized and equipped, at an expense of 

 $30,000, the^ Scott Battery. In 1868 he was a delegate 

 to the National Democratic Convention in New York ; 

 in 1880, delegate-at-large from Pennsylvania to the 

 convention in Cincinnati ; in 1876-'84 was a member 

 of the Democratic National Committee : in 1866 and 

 1871 was Mayor of Erie ; and in 1884 was elected a 

 member of the House of Representatives, in which he 

 had served as a page -forty-fotir years previously. 

 He was re-elected from the 27th Pennsylvania Dis- 



trict as a Democrat in 1886, and in his second term 

 served as a member of the Committees on Ways and 

 Means and on Expenditures in the Navy Depart 

 ment. Mr. Scott bought many noted horses, and es- 

 tablished a great breeding farm on the old Tazewell 

 estate in Virginia. 



Scoville, Jonathan, manufacturer, born in Salisbury, 

 Conn., July 14, 1830; died in New York city, March 

 4, 1891. He was educated in the public schools and 

 in Yale Scientific School, established a blast furnace 

 in Oneida County, N. Y., in 1850, and car-wheel 

 factories in Toronto, Canada, and Buffalo, N. Y., in 

 1860, and with a brother made the Buffalo factory 

 x one of the largest of its kind in the country. In 1881 

 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat from the 

 Erie District to fill a vacancy, and in the following 

 year he was elected for a full term. His only other 

 public office was that of Mayor of Buffalo, to which 

 he was elected in 1884. Mr. Scoville bequeathed 

 $25,000 to the Buffalo General Hospital for the estab- 

 lishment of a training school for nurses, $5^000 each 

 to the Buffalo Orphan Asylum, Buffalo line Arts 

 Academy, Buffalo Historical Society, the Home of 

 the Friendless, and St. Vincent's Female Asylum, 

 $3,000 to the Roman Catholic Church Society in 

 Lakeview, Ontario, the interest of $5,000 in per- 

 petuity to St. John's Episcopal Society of Salisbury, 

 Conn., and $500 per annum to the Methodist Episco- 

 pal Union Chapel of Chapinville. 



Searles, Mary Frances Sherwood, capitalist, born in 

 New York city about 1821 ; died in Methuen, Mass., 

 Julv 25, 1891. She was one of several daughters of 

 William Sherwood, removed with the family to Great 

 Barrington, Mass., in early life ; married Mark Hop- 

 kins in 1848, and accompanied him to California in 

 the following year. They settled in Sacramento, and 

 soon afterward Mr. Hopkins formed a partnership 

 with Collis P. lluntington, and the firm began deal- 

 ing in the various commodities needed by the miners. 

 Subsequently the firm united with another, com- 

 posed of Leiand Stanford and Charles Crocker, and 

 the four men began building a railroad from Sacra- 

 mento to Placerville. They then proposed the con- 

 struction of a railroad across the Rocky mountains, 

 and, when Congress passed the bill giving a subsidy 

 of $48,000 for every mile in the mountainous country 

 and $30,000 for every mile on the plains they organ- 

 ized the Central Pacific Railroad Company and di- 

 vided the four principal offices between themselves, 

 Mr. Hopkins taking that of treasurer. The four men 

 built the road in about five years, and it was sup- 

 posed they each cleared nearly $50,000,000 by the 

 transaction. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins then removed to 

 San Francisco, where they built a residence on Nob 

 Hill that cost $1,250,000. ' Mr. Hopkins died in April, 

 1878, leaving an estate variously estimated at from 

 $30,000,000 to $60,000,000. His widow then left San 

 Francisco, and for several years lived alternately in 

 New York city, Pans, London, and Great Barring- 

 ton, building a costly residence at each place, as well 

 as in Methuen and on Block Island. About 1885 she 

 determined to erect at Great Barrington a residence 

 that should surpass in size and beauty her Nob Hill 

 estate, and cost about $5,000,000. Edward F. Searles, 

 who had been engaged to go to San Francisco to re- 

 decorate the mansion there, executed his commission 

 so satisfactorily that on its completion he was placed 

 in charge of her contemplated palace in Great Bar- 

 rington. While prosecuting this work he became 

 architect, superintendent, financial manager, and 

 confidential adviser, and on Nov. 9, 1887, he married 

 his wealthy employer. Excepting occasional trips to 

 Europe and to Mr. Searles's home in Methuen, they 

 lived in the Kellogg Terrace palace at Great Bar- 

 rington till her fatal illness. Mrs. Searles had no 

 children, but many years ago had adopted a youth, 

 who- took the name of Timothy Hopkins. She be- 

 queathed all her property to her husband, and after 

 a sensational hearing in the courts all opposition sud- 

 denlv ceased and by a compromise Mr. Hopkins re- 

 ceived about $3,000,000. . 





