Centennial Souvenir Program, 1954
    Families of O'Fallon: Dr. John B. Scruggs

     Dr. John B. Scruggs was born in Cornishville, Kentucky in 1867. He received his early education in Cornishville and later at a college in Lexington, Kentucky. His medical training was received in The College of Physicians and Surgeons in St. Louis, Missouri. Upon graduating from that institution in 1898 he came to O'Fallon to begin his practice. His genial manner and friendliness soon won for him a place in the hearts of the people of O'Fallon and he established a large practice both in the town and the surrounding area. In 1899 he was married to Laura Begole, a direct descendant of Capt. Joseph Ogle and a member of a prominent family of this area. To this marriage one child was born, Ines, who is now Mrs. Elsworth Rea of O'Fallon. Several years after the death of his first wife, Dr. Scruggs moved to Belleville, where in 1925 he married Virginia Winkleman. He died in 1938.