BIO:  William H. Croll, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Township, Pg 203

WILLIAM H. CROLL, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Reisinger) Croll, was born in Manchester 
Township, March 23, 1840.  About 1850 the family removed to York Township, where our subject 
attended school until his sixteenth year.  He learned the printing business at the York Gazette 
office, after which he worked in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, after which he assumed full 
charge of the Hanover Gazette, this county.  At the first call for troops by President Lincoln 
he promptly enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and at the 
expiration of his three months’ term enlisted in Company I, Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, in 
which he faithfully served for three years, eighteen months of which were served on the field.  
Having been thrown from a horse on a night charge and partially disabled, he was detailed by 
Gen. Butler to the charge of the Government printing office at Norfolk, Va.  March 31, 1866, he 
married Laura V. Whitehurst, of Norfolk, Va., who has borne him the following children:  
Eugenia A., George (deceased), Minnie E., Wilson J. (deceased), Lucy and Alma.  Mr. Croll in 
1872 was elected county auditor, and was re-elected to the same office in 1884.