BIO: A. F. Mullin, 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 LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

558  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  A. F. MULLIN is a member of the firm of W. A. & A. F. Mullin, 
manufacturers of book and printing paper, Mount Holly Springs.  The 
mill operated by this firm is one of the oldest in the state, the 
business having been established by the grandfather and grand-uncle of 
our subject.  The mill was burned down in 1846, and the ground was then 
purchased by W. B. Mullin (subject's father) who, in 1847, erected a 
larger building, introducing modern machinery, and conducted the 
business until his death in 1869, since when it has been operated by 
the present firm.  A. F. Mullin was born at Mount Holly Springs, this 
county, in the house where he now resides, September 14, 1837, son of 
William B. and Eliza (Lightcap) Mullin, and is third in a family of 
eight children - five of whom are still living.  Our subject attended 
school at Mount Holly Springs until he was sixteen, when he entered 
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn., where he graduated in his twenty-
first year.  He then accepted the position of principal of the 
Cumberland Valley Institute (1858-60); was principal of Dickinson 
College grammar school from 1860 to 1862, and then went into the paper 
manufacturing business with his father, in which he still continues.  
Mr. Mullin was married, in 1869, to Martha E., daughter of John S. 
Sterrett, and a native of Pennsylvania, her parents having been among 
the pioneers of the State.  Mr. and Mrs. Mullin have three children:  
Lillian Sterrett, Charles L. and John Sterrett.  Mrs. Mullin is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church.  In politics Mr. Mullin was formerly 
a Republican, but now casts his vote with the Prohibition party.  He 
was a member of the town council, and is now of the school board.  In 
1876 he was a candidate for State Senator on the Republican ticket, 
and, though defeated, ran 1,000 ahead of his ticket.  Although not an 
office seeker he is now (1886) a candidate for the Legislature on the 
Prohibition ticket.