There may be some truth to the story as the pattern Stieff Rose debuted in June 1900 and not 1892 as generally reported.
Frank Schofield was employed at Baltimore Sterling Silver Company (BSSCo) at that time as a die cutter.
In 1905, he was able to buy the failing business of long time Baltimore Silversmiths, C. Klank & Sons.
On June 25, 1913, Frank M. Schofield married Berthe Kline Tarbeau, a woman 14 years his junior (born 1885).
A trapeze artist and bareback horse rider for three years in the circus, she met Frank Schofield while performing a vaudeville show at the Maryland Theater in Baltimore.
The company, in 1930, moved to a newly built four-story building, located at the corner of Pleasant and Charles Street, in Baltimore.
He was a member of The Rotary, The Elks, St. Georges Society, the Masonic Lodge, and the Scottish Rite Temple.
Gary Pick stated his family lived on the Schofield's farm briefly, to help Berthe care for it after Frank's death.
Berthe Schofield ran the company until 1965, then sold it to a Baltimore area jeweler named Oscar Caplan.
Berthe Schofield retired in 1967, and died on August 24, 1972, while attending a private luncheon at the Green Spring Valley Inn (Baltimore).