150950617John Scholl18271916JohnSchollhttps://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/439/fullOriginally from Germany, Scholl settled in Schuykill County, a center of PA's anthracite coal industry.  He is listed in the Blythe County Census of 1860 as a carpenter, suggesting that he assembled coller scaffolding, a settlement housing and other structures. He moved to Germania by 1870 and worked as a carpenter, building main structures such as the St. Matthieus Lutheran Church.  Community maintained strong ethnic character into the 20th C. After his retirement at the age of 80, he started the carvings for which he is best known, using architectureal.(1827–1916)MünsingenMünsingenMünsingenJohn SchollJohannes Scholl