Albert Gallatin Scholfield
About Albert Gallatin Scholfield
Lived 1807 – 1901 (aged 93–94).
Albert Gallatin Scholfield (1807–1901) Albert Scholfield married Harriet Newell Bolles, and after her death re-married. In 1846 Scholfield moved to Providence, Rhode Island. He was a supporter of the double-entry bookkeeping system, while the merchants in Providence were using the single-entry system. To teach the new method, in June 1846 Scholfield founded Scholfield's Commercial College in downtown Providence
Works by Scholfield Elementary and Practical Treatise on Book-keeping (1884) a book by A.G. Scholfield
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Who was Albert Gallatin Scholfield?
(1807-1901)
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Albert Gallatin Scholfield was born in 1807.
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Albert Gallatin Scholfield died in 1901.
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