Editing Ed Schieffelin (section)

== Early life ==
[[File:EdSchieffelinRoots.jpg|thumb|Ed Schieffelin's family tree]]
Schieffelin was born in a coal-mining region of [[Wellsboro, Pennsylvania]], the son of a prominent New York and Pennsylvania family, in 1847. His great-grandfather [[Jacob Schieffelin]], Sr., born in 1757, joined the [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalist army]] and served as [[Henry Hamilton (governor)|Henry Hamilton's]] secretary during the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. Schieffelin was captured in 1779 and held prisoner in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]]. He escaped to Canada, where in 1780 he was appointed a lieutenant in the [[Queen's Rangers]] by [[Henry Clinton (American War of Independence)|Henry Clinton]]. He spent time in Montreal and Detroit, before returning to New York, where in 1794 he founded a drug company with his brother Lawrence.<ref name=yale>{{cite web|title=The Schieffelin Family|url=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/SaxonServlet?style=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/EAD/yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&source=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/beinecke:schieff/EAD&query=pioneer&filter=&hitPageStart=26|publisher=Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library|location=New Haven, CT|access-date=3 May 2011|archive-date=15 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815070515/http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/SaxonServlet?style=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/EAD/yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&source=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/beinecke:schieff/EAD&query=pioneer&filter=&hitPageStart=26|url-status=dead}}</ref> This firm still exists as a liquor import house, Schieffelin & Somerset. Jacob's wife, Hannah Lawrence, was a descendant of Quaker colonial religious pioneer [[John Bowne]], [[Elizabeth Fones]], and the Winthrop family of New England.

In January 1849, Jacob, Jr. traveled to California with his sons Alfred and Edward Girard on the ship ''Morrison''. They arrived in September, but almost immediately booked passage home via Panama in November.<ref name=yale/> Jacob Schieffelin, Jr. traveled overland and joined his brother and Ed. Schieffelin's father Clinton Emanuel Del Pela Schieffelin settled in the [[Rogue Valley, Oregon|Rogue Valley]], [[Oregon Territory]], in the mid-1850s to raise cattle, grain and children. The family maintained an interest in the mining activities in the area.<ref name=yale/><ref name=brown>{{cite web|last=Brown|first=Ron|url=http://kdrv.com/news/local/188532|title=Oregon Trails: The story of Ed Schieffelin and Tombstone|date=September 10, 2010|access-date=2 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724125327/http://kdrv.com/news/local/188532|archive-date=24 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>