Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (1843-1921) was an American theologian, pastor, and writer. He is best know for the "Scofield Reference Bible" (1909), which added a commentary on scripture on the same page as verses, instead of in another book.
Scofield helped popularize dispensationalism.
Scofield was born in Michigan, but later would move to Tennessee, where he lived at the outset of the Civil War. Scofield served in the Confederate Army as a private in the 7th Tennessee Infantry, and fought at Antietam. He eventually deserted and would take the Union oath of allegiance, eventually settling, and marrying in St. Louis, Missouri.
In his lifetime, Scofield served as a US District Attorney (Kansas), a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, and helped found the Central American Mission (1890). He would later go on to found the Philadelphia School of the Bible (1914).
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