Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, McLean Co. DR. WILLIAM L. CRANDELL, McLean County, was born August 16, 1844, in Bullitt County, Ky., and is the son of Dr. Samuel W. and Margaret (Goff) Crandell, natives of Brandenburg and Nelson Counties, Ky., respectively. Dr. Samuel W. Crandell (subject's father) was first lieutenant in the Eight[h] Kentucky Federal Cavalry for eighteen months, after which he became assistant surgeon of the regiment; he resigned in 1864, and returned home. The mother of subject was a daughter of Edwin Goff, who married Elizabeth Thurman, both natives of Virginia. Subject received a common school education, and in June, 1862, enlisted in Company I, Sixth Kentucky Cavalry, under Capt. Ed. Penn. He participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Resaca and Nashville and was in numerous skirmishes with Morgan's men; went with Sherman on his march to the sea, as far as Macon, Ga. He was discharged in June, 1865, at Nashville, as second sergeant, and returned to his home in Louisville, Ky., where he engaged as salesman in a general store for ten months. Then moved to Sacramento, McLean, County; engaged in saw-milling one year, and then returned to Louisville, and attended a course at the Kentucky School of Medicine in the winter of 1867-68; same spring he located in Ashbysburgh, Hopkins County, and commenced practice. In 1870, he moved to Hamilton County, Mo., and in 1872, to southern Illinois; in 1874, he located in Slaughterville, Webster County, and one year later located at Beach Grove, where he has been engaged in his profession ever since, except eighteen months at Lewisport, Hancock County. He was married December 21, 1870, to Mrs. Mary Saunders of Saline County, Mo., a daughter of Lemuel G. Tucker; she died in February, 1876. He afterward married May 21, 1878, Georgia E. Harper, of McLean County, a daughter of John H. and C. E. (Walters) Harper, who were born respectively in Pennsylvania in 1812, and Wheeling, W. Va., in 1822. Two children were born to this union, one of whom is still living. Dr. Crandell is a member of the Masonic order, and a Democrat. He gave his first vote for George B. McClellan, and his last for Grover Cleveland. He is at present chairman of the board of village trustees, and the board of education. Crandell Goff Thurman Penn Saunders Tucker Harper Walters = Bullitt-KY Brandenburg-Meade-KY Nelson-KY VA Louisville-Jefferson-KY Hopkins-KY Hamilton-MO Webster-KY Hancock-KY PA WV http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/mclean/crandell.wl.txt