The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Schieffelin, Bradhurst

SCHIEFFELIN, shēf'ë-lĭn, Bradhurst, American druggist and publicist: b. New York, 21 Sept. 1824. He entered the wholesale drug manufacture, and in 1860 placed petroleum on the market. During the Civil War he organized a committee of prominent citizens for consultation with and support of President Lincoln, and in the financial troubles succeeding the war was active in charities. The Bread and Shelter Society, for sending destitute persons from cities to rural districts for their self-support, was organized by him, and he personally sheltered and fed thousands. With Charles O'Connor and Horace Greeley he formulated the petition introduced into Congress by Roscoe Conkling, for the prevention of the appropriation for the use of religious corporations of public moneys or property.