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HON. HENRY SCHOLL is an ex-Member of the Lower House of the State Legislature, and a general merchant at Bath, Northampton County, Pa. He is a native of this county, and was born December 27, 1825, being the son of Griffith J. and Catharine Scholl. His father was born in Allentown, Pa., and his mother is a native of Northampton County, Pa. The Scholls belong to an old family of the Lehigh Valley. The father, who was a physician and surgeon, practiced in Fogelsville for a number of years, and afterwards at Hecktown, Pa., where he died.

Hon. Henry Scholl, our subject, was reared in Lehigh County, Pa., having moved there with his father when a boy, and he lived there until he reached the year of his majority. For two and one-half years he attended school in New York State, and lived with a relative. The remainder of his education was received in Lehigh County. When about sixteen years of age he obtained a position as clerk at Fogelsville, Lehigh County, Pa., and subsequently clerked in mercantile business in various places for a number of years. In 1853 he engaged in the Unicorn Tile business at Bath, in partnership with Daniel Siegfried, the name of the firm being Siegfried & Scholl, continuing as such about three years, when the interest of Mr. Siegfried was bought by Reuben Dewalt, and with him Mr. Scholl continued in partnership for a time, when he bought out Mr. Dewalt’s interest, and has run the business in his own name ever since. He carries several lines of merchandise, such as are found in a first-class country store.

Mr. Scholl married Lucy A. Anewalt, a native of Northampton County, and daughter of Peter Anewalt, of Lehigh Township, Northampton County, who is now deceased. By this union were born three children: Jane, Mary, and Margaret E., wife of Theodore Campman, of Bethlehem, Pa.

Our subject has served as School Director and Treasurer of the borough of Bath, Pa., and in 1878 was elected on the Democratic ticket as a member of the Lower House of the State Legislature and was re-elected in 1880, serving two terms. He is a member of the Reformed Church, and is a self-made man. He is well known in Bath and vicinity, and takes an active interest in local politics.