Biographical Sketch of Issacher Scholfield

Issacher Scholfield, miller and proprietor of the Dunlap mills, was born in Delaware County, Ohio., in 1833; moved with parents to Wis., and located near Milwaukee, where his father engaged in milling, mercantile business and farming, and he in attending the Quaker Academy in Belmont, Ohio.; and in 1853 engaged in land speculating in Marshall County, Ia., which he continued for three years; then entered into partnership with his brother, and built a mill one and one-half miles north of Le Grand on the Iowa River; this he sold in 1866, and built a mill on Timber Creek in Marshall … Read more