BIO:  Capt. Murry S. Cross, 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 Borough, Pg 13

CAPT. MURRY S. CROSS was born in Windsor Township, York Co., Penn., March 12, 
1835; is a son of Samuel Cross, and is of Scotch-Irish extraction.  The Cross 
family has been connected with the history of York County for nearly a century.  
Capt. Cross was reared on a farm in his native township, receiving a common 
school education in the meantime.  When about twenty years of age he went to 
Baltimore and learned the carpenter's trade.  Returning to York County, he 
followed his trade until Fort Sumpter was fired upon, when he enlisted for three 
months in the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.  After an honorable 
discharge, he was one of the principal men in raising Company C, in York County.  
He was elected first lieutenant, and December 25, 1862, was commissioned a 
captain.  He participated in many engagements, some of the more prominent of 
which were as follows:  Winchester, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania, 
Weldon Railroad, Oquaquen, now Winchester, and Fisher's Hill.  Capt. Cross was 
discharged October 13, 1864.  In 1868 he became the proprietor of what is now 
the Central Hotel.  Here he continued five years.  He began his present business 
in 1882.  The marriage of our subject took place October 4, 1850, to Miss 
Cecelia Hartman, a native of York and daughter of Henry Hartman.  Two children 
have been born to this union, viz.:  Edward M. S. (who died in 1883 of injuries 
received while in the employ of the Northern Central Railway) and Harrison H.  
Capt. Cross is a Republican and a member of the I. O. O. F.