Jonathan Bull born October 21, 1839 in Port Carbon, Pennsylvania a son of Ross and Maria Garis Bull . April 1861 a resident of Easton he enlisted in the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Company C and served 3 months a year later during the first confederate invasion of Maryland ,he joined the 4th Pennsylvania Militia. Before serving his country for the third time he married Amanda Maria Witchey on June 6, 1863 in Port Carbon at the Port Carbon Presbyterian Church. A few weeks later he marched off with the 39th Pennsylvania Militia Company A, a unit hastily organized to repel Lee's confederates who had reached the outskirts of Harrisburg, Jonathan returned to Port Carbon in August 1863 and became a father of a daughter Margaret born November 3, 1863 .just five months after their wedding, they also had the following children born in Port Carbon Thomas 1866,Ross 1868, Jonathan 1870,James 1872,Ida 1873 (Fletcher),Elizabeth 1875(Hamiliton), Carrie 1879(Reber), Frederick 1884,Amanda 1886(Schminkey), Howard 1889 a total of eleven Children. He supported his family by helping his father a Port Carbon shoemaker. He then enlisted on February 11, 1864 as a bugler in the 7th Pennsylvania Calvary Company A with the last two months of service spent in Army hospitals suffering from malaria. He was discharged on September 30, 1865 at Douglas Hospital in Washington D.C. In 1891 he applied for pension and claimed back injuries he sustained from a horse falling on him on June 30, 1864 while camped at Linsville Station Tennessee and injury to ankle in a fall from a oil house., the claim was rejected but finally approved in 1906 and received six dollars a month.

An employee of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway for over 43 years he retired in 1909 with a company pension. He joined the G.A.R. Post # 144 Allison Brothers in Port Carbon on June 26, 1879, remaining active and attending the fiftieth reunion at Gettysburg in July 1913. He died at the age of ninety on December 1, 1929 in Port Carbon.