BIO:  Jacob RUMMEL, Straban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 511

JACOB RUMMEL, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Hunterstown, was born in Adams 
County, Penn., December 13, 1825, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stallsmith) 
Rummel.  They were of German orgin, and had a family of twelve children, of whom 
Jacob is the youngest.  Our subject was reared on the farm, attended the 
district school, and subsequently learned the carpenter’s trade, and devoted his 
time to that occupation for ten years; then turned his attention to agricultural 
pursuits, which he has since successfully followed, and has a fine farm, on 
which he and his family now reside.  He was married, March 16, 1848, to Julian 
Eckert, of German extraction, daughter of Henry Eckert, a farmer, and an early 
settler of Adams County.  Mrs. Rummel bore her husband eight children, four of 
whom are still living:  Charles H., a farmer; Rosanna C.; Emma; Jacob E., a 
farmer, residing in Straban Township.  Mrs. Rummel died January 19, 1884, a 
member of the Reformed Church, of which Mr. Rummel is an elder.  He enlisted, in 
1864, in Company K, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Infantry, Second Brigade, Second Corps, and served until the close of the war.  
Politically he is a Republican.