Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A. G. Walling, 1882. p. a34.
 
ERNST and EMIL SCHOLL

     are proprietors of the Columbia Brewery, at Pomeroy, Garfield county, W.
T., under the name of Scholl Brothers. The brewery was built by them in 1878,
and was one of the first institutions of the new town. The amount brewed
increases each year, being for this season about 6,000 gallons. A view of this
place is given on mother page. Ernst was born in Hamburg, Germany, August 4,
1827. At the age of fifteen he left his native city and became a sailor,
visiting in the next eight years the Mediterranean and European ports, and those
of the West Indies and the Atlantic and Pacific ports of South America. He
arrived in San Francisco from a voyage around the Horn in September, 1850. He
went into the mines at Auburn ravine, and in 1851 to Nevada county. He mined in
California until 1865, when he went to Canyon City, Oregon, and mined and worked
in a brewery until 1870. He then went to Walla Walla and worked in Stahl's
brewery till 1878, when he came to Pomeroy with his brother and built the
Columbia Brewery.
       Emil was also born in Hamburg, March 6, 1838, and went to sea in 1852. As
a mariner he visited the ports of America, West Indies, China, Australia, the
Pacific coast, and others. In 1860 he sailed from Hamburg in the Forest Queen,
of Boston, landing in San Francisco. He went into the mines of El Dorado county,
then to Nevada and worked in the mines and mills at Gold Hill. In 1864 he went
to Canyon City, Oregon, and mined till 1870. He went then to Montana and staid
during the summer, coming to Walla Walla in the fall. After working two years in
Stahl's brewery, he again went to Gold Hill Nevada, and brewed six years for Mr.
Shweis. In 1878 he came again to Washington Territory, and with his brother
built the Columbia Brewery, at Pomeroy.

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Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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