BIO: Alfred Carl, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER LI.

                            MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP.

502 	BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  ALFRED CARL, farmer, P. O. Newville.  George Carl and his wife (who 
was a Heckadorn) came from Berks County, and settled near the Canigagig 
Ridge, in Perry County, prior to 1809.  They reared a family of 
children:  George, Christian and Isaiah (twins), John, Adam, Daniel, 
Eliza, Rachael and Fanny.  Of this family, George learned the 
blacksmith's trade, came to this county about the year 1834, and was 
married the same year to Margaret Kulp, a native of Columbia, Lancaster 
Co., Penn., but who was a resident of White Hill when the nuptials were 
performed; she, as well as Mr. Carl, is of German descent, her parents 
coming from Germany.  The married life of the young couple was 
commenced near the village of Loysville, Perry County, but they moved 
to White Hill later, and in 1843 came to Mifflin Township, this county, 
locating at the McCormick Mill, in Doubling Gap, where George Carl 
built and conducted a smithy for twenty-one years.  Of his children, 
Alfred, Mary A., Elizabeth E., and Margaretta, were born at White Hill; 
David R. was born on the McCalister farm, and Francis E. and Julia A. 
on the homestead near the mill.  Of these, Alfred Carl was born in 
1834, learned the trade with his father, and October 14, 1856, was 
married to Elizabeth L., daughter of John and Catharine Oiler, Rev. 
Hefflefinger, of Newville, performing the ceremony.  Andrew and 
Susannah (Sweetwood) Oiler, grandparents of Mrs. Carl, were residents 
in this county from 1792; reared a family of twelve children:  William, 
Andrew, John, George, Daniel, James, Margaret, Maria, Catharine, 
Elizabeth, Susannah and Letitia.  Of these, John (father of Mrs. Carl) 
for many years was a teacher in Frankford and Mifflin Townships.  He 
married Catharine Hefflefinger in April, 1834, and this union was 
blessed with six children, all born in this county; Elizabeth, John, 
Catharine, William, George and Mary B.  Alfred Carl and his wife 
commenced married life at West Hill, West Pennsborough Township, where 
he engaged in blacksmithing.  From there they removed to Plainfield, 
thence to Newville, and, in 1864, to the mills in Mifflin Township, 
where he purchased the smithy of his father, who bought himself a nice 
farm near by.  For twenty-one years our subject carried on business 
there, earning his money by the sweat of his brow.  In 1885, he 
purchased his father' farm, and now resides on it.  To Mr. and Mrs. 
Alfred Carl have been born eleven children:  Mary E. (wife of Henry H. 
Hoover), Kate B., Margaret L., Lizzie D., Lottie T., George, Clara A., 
Albert I., Charles T., Millie A. and Morris R.  This large family, with 
the exception of Letitia, Lottie and Morris R., who are deceased, are 
now residing beneath the paternal roof.  Especial attention has been 
paid to their education, and all will surely follow the good example 
showed them by their parents.