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H., Milton A., F. K., Mamie, Samuel P., Ada, Nora, Robert, Forest, and Henry. WILLIAM H. PAUL, a prosperous and successful farmer of Conemaugh township, was born in Adams township, this county, September 9, 1855, and is a son of Jacob B. and Barbara (Kring) Paul.     Jacob B. Paul, grandfather, was a native of the German empire, whence he emigrated to America, and shortly afterward located in Adams Township, this county, being among the earlier settlers of that township. In that township, then mainly a wilderness, he cleared up a farm and lived the remainder of his life.     Jacob B. Paul, father, was born in that township in November 1822. He followed in the footsteps of his father, as regards an avocation, and has lived all his life in the township of his birth. The Republican party is the one with which he has always affiliated, and he is a conscientious member of the United Evangelical church. His marriage resulted in the birth of six children: two died in infancy; Jeremiah, a farmer and lumberman of Adams township; William H., subject; Jacob, died young; and Mary A., the wife of A. B. Custer, a merchant of Conemaugh, this county.     William H. Paul received a limited educational training in the common schools of Adams township. For twelve years he followed lumbering, and then, in 1890, purchased a farm consisting of ninety-nine acres, situated on the Frankstown road, about two miles east of Johnstown, and has since followed the pursuits of agriculture. He believes in the principles of the Republican party, which party has elected him to the office of tax collector and constable of Conemaugh township. On October 31, 1883, were celebrated the nuptials

that made Mr. Paul and Mary Hoffman, husband and wife. To this wedded relation have been born four children: Irvin Ellsworth, Cora May, Sidney Elmira and Minnie Mabel. B. F. STULL, a self-made business man and successful merchant of Dale borough, is a son of Rev. William H. and Margaret (Varner) Stull, and was born forty-six years ago, on a farm, in Richland township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. He is of German and Scotch descent, and his paternal grandfather, Jacob Stull, was a native of Berks county and settled in Cambria county, where he purchased a farm and reared a family of respectable sons and daughters. He was a democrat and a member of the Evangelical church, and married Elizabeth Paul, by whom he had eleven children -- Barbara, wife of John Paul; Mary married Rev. Louis Dunmire, and now is dead; Elizabeth Oster, now deceased; Catharine, wife of Henry Dunmire; John F., living at Salix; Jacob R., now deceased, who served for thirty-two years as justice of the peace in Richland township, and also one term as county commissioner; Susan; Rev. William H., father; Daniel, now dead; Lydia, wife of John S. Wissinger; and Leah, who wedded Lewis Shank. Rev. William H. Stull was born August, 1825, and his life labor closed in 1875, passing to rest on October 5 of that year. He was a man of ordinary education and self-made in the true sense of that term. He entered the ministry of the Evangelical church in 1856, and was on Bedford circuit two years; Jefferson, two years; Indiana, two years; Preston, West Virginia, two years; Fairview, one year; and Somerset, two years. He was a whig and afterwards a republican in politics, gave an ardent support

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