BIO: Charles H. 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:

  CHARLES H. MULLIN, Mount Holly Springs, is secretary and treasurer of 
the Mount Holly Paper Company, established in 1856, who do an extensive 
business in the manufacture of fine letter and writing papers; they 
make the commercial safety paper for checks, drafts, etc.  He was born 
in South Middleton Township (now Mount Holly Springs), this county, 
October 31, 1833, son of William B. and Eliza (Lightcap) Mullin, 
natives of Cumberland County, and of Irish and English descent, 
respectively.  Our subject's great-grandfather, who came from the North 
of Ireland to America in 1760, and settled in Cumberland County, Penn., 
was a farmer by occupation, and served as a soldier in the 
Revolutionary war, and his grandfather, who was a paper manufacturer in 
Franklin county, Penn., came, in 1819, to what is now Mount Holly 
Springs, and bought the paper-mill built in 1812 by William Barber and 
I. Knox, and which he carried on until 1838, when his son, William B. 
Mullin (subject's father), took charge of the business, and continued 
it until his death, which occurred in 1869.  In politics Mr. Mullin is 
a Republican.  He was one of the electors on the Republican ticket that 
elected Gen. Grant President his first term; he was delegate to the 
National Convention in 1876, and has also been delegate to all 
important State conventions since 1872, always taking a prominent part.  
He is a member of the I. O. O. F., K. of P., and is a Knight Templar.  
During the late war of the Rebellion our subject enlisted, in 1861, in 
the Seventh Pennsylvania Reserves.  Mr. Mullin takes an interest in 
everything that pertains to the welfare of Cumberland County.  In 1872 
he was elected president of Cumberland County Agricultural Society, 
which he still holds office.