CHARLES SCHOLL
Charles Scholl, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 7th of April, 1858, and is the son of Leo and Catharine Scholl, both of German descent. Charles lived in his native city until twelve years of age, when he came to Bureau county, Illinois, where he attended school in the winter terms and worked on a farm through the summer. He was so engaged several years, when he came to Cass county, Iowa, and settled in Lincoln township, where he operated a farm until 1881, when he removed to the farm he had purchased two years before. He follows general farming, and makes a specialty of raising fine stock. He has made many improvements on his place and erected one of the finest houses in the township. Mr. Scholl was married on the 2d of September, 1881, to Maggie Keiner, a daughter of Frederick Keiner, and a native of Jefferson county, Wisconsin. They have had two children--Lawrence, born on the 26th of March, 1882, died on January 27th, 1883; and Grace M., born in 1883, and died on the 15th of June, 1884. Mr. Scholl is a member of the I. O. O. F., having joined that order in the fall of 1879.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 690.
