BIO:  Martin S. Crull, 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, Newberry Township, Pg 151

MARTIN S. CRULL was born in Newberry Township, York Co., Penn., July 6, 1841, and 
is the eldest of the two children born to John and Lydia (Shelley) Crull, natives 
of York County, Penn., and of English and German descent.  The father followed 
farming until 1856, then engaged in the mercantile business until 1861, when he 
enlisted in the United States army for two years.  The hardships and exposure 
undermined his health, which he never recovered.  He died July 17, 1876.  Martin 
S. remained on the farm until he was seventeen years of age, when he assisted his 
father in the mercantile business until 1862, when he purchased his father’s 
stock of goods and continued the business until 1876.  He enlisted in the army; 
was mustered in Company B, Two Hundredth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the 
fall of 1864, and served till the close of the war in the Third Division, Ninth 
Corps.  He took part in the battles of Spring Hill, Fort Steadman, Petersburg, 
was mustered out at Fort Ellsworth, Va., May 29, 1865, and discharged June 5, 
1865.  He was married to Mary Sipe in 1861.  They have eight children:  
Henrietta, Grant, Clara J., Abraham S., Cecelia, Josephine, Daisy and Ada.  In 
1875 Mr. Crull removed to his present fine farm of 130 acres.  For sixteen years 
he held the office of postmaster in Newberrytown.