BIO:  George B. Krall, 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, Washington Township, Pg 198

George B. KRALL, was born in Washington Township, March 30, 1837, is the eldest of the six 
children of Jesse and Maria (Brubaker) Krall, and is of German descent through his great-
grandfather.  Subject’s father was born in 1810, was a farmer, millwright and merchant at 
Kralltown for many years.  He now resides on his farm of 100 acres in Washington Township, and 
owns, beside several smaller tracts of land, the saw and grist-mill, where our subject is 
engaged.  At the age of fifteen, subject apprenticed himself for five years to learn the 
millwright’s trade with his father; then followed the trade for himself until his enlistment, 
August 8, 1862, in the One Hundred and Thirtieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company B.  He was in 
the engagements at South Mountain, Antietam and Chancellorsville, and returned home at the end 
of ten months.  He followed his trade until September, 1863, when he enlisted for three years, 
or the war, in Company C, Seventy-ninth Volunteers, and took part in the battle of Raleigh, N. 
C.  He was honorably discharged July 12, 1865.  Thereafter he engaged in his trade in Maryland 
until 1879.  In 1859 he married Sarah H., daughter of Henry B. Smith, of York County, and to 
this union were born four children:  Ellis C., Jessie F. (both deceased), Gertrude and Grace.  
In 1872, Mrs. Krall, died, and in 1877 Mr. Krall married Della B., daughter of George Ford, and 
a native of Delaware.  In 1879 Mr. K. moved from Maryland to Carlisle, Penn., then to Loudon, 
Franklin County, and in the spring of 1884 settled down in this township.