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John Scoll Sigafoose 1853 – 1948 Distinguished Citizen: 1976

Photo: John and his wife Anne Agnes (Stub)Signafoose

Brunswick: 100 Years of History (1990) Sigafoose, John Scoll (1853-1948) Honored 1976 Young Scoll Sigafoose was a mule driver on the C&O Canal for Jordan & Wenner, who shipped grain to Washington. Along with John Ball, he also operated a ferry from Berlin to Virginia. Scoll also tended bar in a saloon in Knoxville when bars and saloons were prohibited in Berlin-Brunswick because of the railroad. In the early 1900’s he was made a policeman in Brunswick. He was locktender for the C&O from 1910 to 1924, when the canal closed after being devastated by a flood.

From Find a Grave Birth 15 Mar 1852 Death 4 Apr 1948 (aged 96) Burial Old Lutheran Cemetery Brunswick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA