Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Paull, Findley 1809 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  FINDLEY PAULL, retired merchant, Palestine, was born in Fayette County, Penn.,
February 26, 1809. His father was James Paull, born 1781, in Fayette County,
Penn.; he died there in June, 1856. His occupation was that of a farmer and iron
manufacturer, running several furnaces; he was one of the most prominent men in
his county. Mr. James Paull was married three times, and our subject is the
oldest son of fourteen children. His mother's maiden name was Hannah Jackson,
born in Fayette County, Penn., where she died. Both grandfathers and
great-grandfathers of our subject were in the Revolutionary army. His
grandfather on his father's side was in Crawford's defeat in Ohio, where he had
to flee for his life, being out in the wilderness eight days; he was made
Colonel afterward. Slover, the noted scout, escaped with him. Mr. Paull went to
school in Fayette County, Penn. At the age of fifteen, he commenced to clerk for
his uncle in Wheeling, W. Va. In 1835, he, in partnership with his uncle, whom
he bought out after five years, opened a general store in Palestine, Ill. The
same year, Mr. Paull went back to Wheeling, W. Va., where he was married,
October 15, to Miss Ann M. Bayless, born 1811, in Steubenville, Ohio; she died
in Palestine, October, 1877. She was a daughter of John C. Bayless, a merchant.
Mr. Paull has five children living; their names are Ellen, Fanny, Anna, James T.
and William O.; two other boys are dead. His three daughters and youngest son
are married. Mr. Paull was married a second time, June 15, 1880, in York, Clark
Co., Ill, to Mrs. E. Gorham, the widow of Dr. C. Gorham. Mr. Paull is much
respected by his fellow-men; has been an Elder in the Presbyterian Church for
forty-seven years; is identified with the Republican party, but believes the
Prohibition party should be the party in power; he is a good temperance worker.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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