BIOGRAPHY: William H. PAUL, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 91
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William H. PAUL

WILLIAM H. PAUL, a prosperous and successful farmer of Conemaugh township, was 
born in Adams township, this county, September 9, 1855, and is a son of Jacob B. 
and Barbara (Kring) Paul.
     Jacob B. Paul, grandfather, was a native of the German empire, whence he 
emigrated to America, and shortly afterward located in Adams Township, this 
county, being among the earlier settlers of that township. In that township, 
then mainly a wilderness, he cleared up a farm and lived the remainder of his 
life.
     Jacob B. Paul, father, was born in that township in November 1822. He 
followed in the footsteps of his father, as regards an avocation, and has lived 
all his life in the township of his birth. The Republican party is the one with 
which he has always affiliated, and he is a conscientious member of the United 
Evangelical church. His marriage resulted in the birth of six children: two died 
in infancy; Jeremiah, a farmer and lumberman of Adams township; William H., 
subject; Jacob, died young; and Mary A., the wife of A. B. Custer, a merchant of 
Conemaugh, this county.
     William H. Paul received a limited educational training in the common 
schools of Adams township. For twelve years he followed lumbering, and then, in 
1890, purchased a farm consisting of ninety-nine acres, situated on the 
Frankstown road, about two miles east of Johnstown, and has since followed the 
pursuits of agriculture. He believes in the principles of the Republican party, 
which party has elected him to the office of tax collector and constable of 
Conemaugh township. On October 31, 1883, were celebrated the nuptials that made 
Mr. Paul and Mary Hoffman, husband and wife. To this wedded relation have been 
born four children: Irvin Ellsworth, Cora May, Sidney Elmira and Minnie Mabel.