Noel Paul Scofield (1888-1962) consistently refused to give interviews about his father. Lutzweiler, 198. C. I. Scofield almost certainly provided deliberately inaccurate personal information to Who's Who and to his official biographer, Charles Trumball. As another biographer has written, Scofield "was secretive about his past and not above distorting the facts of his shadowy years." John D. Hannah, "Scofield, Cyrus Ingerson" American National Biography Online February 2000.
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History of the United States Attorney District of Kansas. Nevertheless, the apologetic Mangum & Sweetnam note that "there are discrepancies in these reports as to where his time was served or what the crime was he allegedly committed. Even Canfield, after scouring public records, looking for corroboration of the jail time stories, concludes that such reports turn out to be nothing but unsubstantiated rumors." (37)
