Edward Lawrence Schieffelin (1847â€"1897) was an Indian scout and
prospector who discovered silver in the Arizona Territory, which led
to the founding of Tombstone, Arizona. He partnered with his brother
Al and mining engineer Richard Gird in a handshake deal that produced
millions of dollars in wealth for all three men. During the course of
Tombstone's mining history, about US $85,000,000 in silver was
produced from its mines.Ed 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 army and served as Henry
Hamilton's secretary during the 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. He spent time in Montreal and
Detroit, before returning to New York, where in 1794 he founded a drug
company with his brother Lawrence. This firm still exists as a liquor
import house, Schieffelin & Somerset.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. 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 Territory, in the mid-1850s to raise cattle, grain and
children. The family maintained an interest in the mining activities
in the area.At age 17, Schieffelin set out on his own as a prospector
and miner. He began looking for gold and silver in about 1865. From
Oregon, he went east to Coeur d'Alene, then searched across Nevada
into Death Valley, back into Colorado and then New Mexico. Ed Schieffelin Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter