Digitized version of a handwritten notebook begun by Peter Scholl (1809-1872), an emigrant to Oregon. The notebook contains biographical information about the Scholl family, including a record of births, marriages, and deaths. Scholl began the notebook around 1850, and it appears to have been continued by other relatives after his death. The notebook also contains poems and hymns; medicinal remedies; and notes about the weather, travel, farming, and the Bible. Peter Scholl was born in Kentucky and emigrated to Oregon with his family in 1847. He took a donation land claim on the Tualatin River in what is now the community of Scholls, Washington County, and established a ferry crossing there, known as Scholl's Ferry.