Scholl family notebook, 1850-1912

Peter Scholl, a relative of Daniel Boone, was born in Clarke County, Kentucky, in 1809. He emigrated with his family to Illinois as a teenager, and in 1828, he married Elizabeth Cowhick, with whom he had six children. Scholl twice volunteered for military service against Native peoples, first in 1827 during a conflict with the Ho-Chunk people, and again in 1831 during a conflict with members of the Sauk and Mesquakie. In 1847, Scholl and his family emigrated to Oregon, residing briefly in Milwaukie before establishing a donation land claim on the Tualatin River in what is now the community of Scholls in Washington County. Scholl established a ferry, known as Scholl's Ferry, an important crossing on the river. Around 1870, he sold and moved to Portland, where he remained until his death in 1872; Elizabeth Scholl died the same year.

Sources: "Peter Scholl," Transactions of the Oregon Pioneer Association, fifteenth annual reunion, 1887, pages 70-73; death notice in the Oregonian, November 25, 1872, Page 2, column 2; entry for Scholls, Washington County, in Oregon Geographic Names, by Lewis A. McArthur and Lewis L. McArthur, seventh edition (Oregon Historical Society Press: Portland, Oregon, 2003), page 853.