BIO: Hugh W. MCCALL, 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 31-32

HUGH W. McCALL, attorney at law, was born in Lower Chanceford Township, York 
Co., Penn., June 15, 1839, is a son of James L. and Sarah D. (Whiteford) McCall, 
and is of Scotch-Irish and English descent.  The father of Mr. McCall was born 
in Lower Chanceford Township, January 9, 1806, and his mother was born in 
Harford County, Md., in 1805.  The McCall family has been identified with the 
history of York County for more than 150 years, and the maternal grandfather of 
our subject was a soldier in the war of 1812.  Receiving an academical 
education, Mr. McCall went, in 1861, to Mansfield, Ohio, and took up the study 
of law, under Judge Thomas W. Bartley, ex-governor of Ohio.  Our subject in 1862 
enlisted in Capt. Miller's company, which was at that time ordered to the 
defense of Cincinnati which was threatened by Kirby Smith; in this capacity he 
served for thirty days, and returned to Mansfield and resumed his legal studies, 
which he continued until 1863, when he came to York County, where he raised and 
organized Company A, of the Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry, commanded by Col. 
W. H. Boyd, until he was severely wounded at Cold Harbor.  Mr. McCall was 
commissioned captain February 19, 1864, and this position he held until the 
close of the war.  He completed the study of the law in the office of Hon. 
Thomas E. Cochran of York, and was admitted to the bar August 27, 1866, and has 
since continued the practice of his profession.  He is a Republican, and in 1868 
was a delegate of the National Republican Convention at Chicago.  He was married 
in 1871 to Miss Rachel E. Kell, a native of Franklin County, Penn.  Their 
children are as follows: James S., born August 15, 1872; Hugh C., March 17, 
1874, and Samuel K., April 9, 1876.  Mr. and Mrs. McCall are members of the 
Presbyterian Church.