BIO: William A. McCarrell, 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 XL.

                        BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG. 

444  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  REV. WILLIAM A. McCARRELL, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in 
Shippensburg, was born in Greene County, Penn., August 20, 1846, son of 
Rev. Dr. Alexander and Martha (McLain) McCarrell, natives of Washington 
County, Penn., of Scotch-Irish descent.  The Rev. Alexander McCarrell, 
D. D., was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Claysville, Washington 
Co., Penn., for thirty-five years.  His children now living are:  S. J. 
M., an attorney at law; Rev. J. J., a Presbyterian minister; Rev. 
William A.; and Thomas C., a Presbyterian minister.  The subject of 
this sketch acquired his education at Washington and Jefferson College, 
where he graduated in 1868.  He then accepted a position 

445  BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG.

at Harlem Springs (Ohio), in Harlem Springs College, as professor of 
Greek and Latin, and mental and moral science.  Remaining there one 
year, he then entered the Theological Seminary at Allegheny City, 
Penn., from which he graduated in 1871, and in the same year accepted a 
call to the churches of Gravel Run and Cambridge, Crawford Co., Penn., 
where he remained until 1875, when he accepted a call from the 
Presbyterian Church in Shippensburg.  In 1876 he wrote a very 
creditable history of the Presbyterian Church of Shippensburg, which 
has since been published.  He is a frequent contributor to the 
newspaper of articles on religious and moral topics.  He was married, 
in 1871, to Martha, daughter of Benjamin Means, and a native of 
Washington County, Penn., of Scotch-Irish descent.  Their children are 
Martha E., William Alexander, Margaret and Ella R.