BIO: William CATTRELL (KETTERELL), Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 206.
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  CATRELL (KETTERELL), WILLIAM, was a native of the State of Maryland, 
where he was born in 1784.  He learned the trade of shoemaker, and 
established himself in Harrisburg about 1805.  During the war of 1812-
14 he served under General Pike in the Western Department.  
Subsequently he began merchandising, and successfully carried on 
business until the close of his life.  March 23, 1835, he was appointed 
by Governor Ritner inspector of flour at Harrisburg, an office shortly 
after abolished.  He served several years as a member of the borough 
council of Harrisburg.  He died at Harrisburg, April 7, 1848.  He 
married November 6, 1808, Letitia Wilson, sister of McNair Wilson, of 
Harrisburg, who survived her husband only a few years.  They left no 
issue.  By his will Mr. Catrell left several bequests to the Zion 
Lutheran church, of which he was long an elder, one resulting in the 
founding of the Catrell library.  His pastor, the Rev. Charles W. 
Schaeffer, D. D., date of Germantown, bears this noble testimony;  "He 
was a man of very kindly, cheerful spirit, of pleasant manners, of good 
sound sense, and generally well informed.  As a business man he had 
been distinguished for his habits of order and diligence, and his 
sterling integrity of principle.  His confession and maintenance of his 
religious faith was modest, though positive and earnest, and in the 
highest degree sincere.  He stood very high in the regard of all who 
knew him, and was deeply lamented in his death."