BIO:  Peter Ruhl, 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, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 180

PETER RUHL, born in Baltimore County, Md., June 30, 1834, is the eldest son of 
William and Elizabeth (Crim) Ruhl, who had four sons and eight daughters.  He was 
brought up on the farm, and attended the district school.  At the age of twenty-six 
he began farming.  He was married, in October, 1855, to Sarah Rogers, a native of 
England, and has had six children:  Clara Virginia, died at the age of one year and 
a half; the five living are Robert J., mining in Virginia; John W., school teacher; 
George E., a farmer; Charles E., a farmer at home, and Sarah Lizzie Jane, at home.  
He removed to York County in 1867, and located where he has since resided; owns a 
fine farm of 167 acres.  He has served one year as judge of elections; as school 
director since 1876; he was one of the organizers and for two terms a director of 
the New Freedom Building & Loan Association, and is a member of the Evangelical 
Association.