WILLIAM B. SCAIFE son of JEFFERY and LYDIA (BARRETT) SCAIFE
History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821
Pg. 277
WILLIAM B. SCAIFE (deceased) was born in the First ward, Pittsburgh, Sept. 5, 1812.His parents, JEFFERY and LYDIA (BARRETT) SCAIFE, came from Yorkshire, England, to Pittsburgh about the beginning of the present century, and in 1802 JEFERY SCAIFE engaged in the manufacture of tin and sheet iron ware.The latter died in 1846.WILLIAM B., his only surviving son, succeeded to the business.JEFFERY SCAIFE’S father was a tea merchant, who died and was buried at Barbados.The family is of Danish origin, and has been traced back to the year 1653...
MR. SCHAIFE, the subject of these lines,died in 1876.He was a lifelong member of the M. E. Church, and was a whig and republican.His wife, MARY, was a daughter of EPHRAIM FRISBEE, of Schoharie Co., N. Y., and was born in Pittsburgh.They have six sons: OLIVER P., CHARLES C. LAURESTON L., WILLIAM LUCIEN, MARVIN F. and WALTER B....The youngest member of the family, received the appointment to Vienna, Austria, of U. S. vice consul-general, where he has since resided.