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 | | Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, Confederate soldier, legislator, lawyer, and congregational pastor, son of Elias and Abi (Goodrich) Scofield, was born in Lenawee County, Michigan, on August 19, 1843. |
 | | Scofield served in the Seventh Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, and received the Confederate Cross of Honor. |
 | | Scofield became pastor of Moody Church, Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1895, but returned to the Dallas church in 1902, when he began work on the Scofield Reference Bible, published in 1910. |
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