BIO: S. W. KIMMEL, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 411.
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  S. W. KIMMEL, Saltillo, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Carroll 
county, Md., February 5, 1856, son of Josiah and Rebecca (Barnes) 
Kimmel. His grandfather, William Kimmel, was a millwright of Cumberland 
county, near Mechanicsburg, Pa. He accumulated a comfortable fortune, 
and occupied a prominent position in the community. His children were: 
Nicholas, a farmer of Clark county, Va.; John A., died in Williamsport, 
Md., leaving two sons, who reside in Cumberland, Md.; Josiah; Jacob, 
coachmaker, of Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Eliza, married to Mr. Burkheimer, 
both deceased; Mary, married to Mr. Alvin, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., has 
seven or eight children; Mrs. Seifert, died in Mechanicsburg, where her 
husband now resides. Josiah Kimmel was born in the neighborhood of 
Pottstown, Pa. When a young man he left that place, and engaged in 
driving a team for the purpose of carrying merchandise between 
Baltimore and Pittsburg. This was his business for a number of years. 
Before leaving Pottstown, Mr. Kimmel had for a short time sold 
windmills on the road; he continued for some time to do this, and then 
began the manufacture of hand-rakes. About 1871 he removed with his 
family to Clay township, Huntingdon county, taking up his residence on 
a farm near Saltillo, which he cultivated for the remainder of his 
life. Mr. Kimmel was a Democrat, and unswerving in his allegiance to 
his party. He served Clay township as school director, and for one term 
as supervisor. His wife is a native of York county, Pa., but at the 
time of their marriage was engaged at a hotel in Carroll county, Md., 
where they resided for some time after. Their children are: Jennie; and 
S. W. Mr. Kimmel died about 1878, at the age of sixty-eight years. Mrs. 
Kimmel still resides in Saltillo, to which place she retired after the 
death of her husband.
  The early boyhood of S. W. Kimmel was passed in Maryland, near the 
town of Manchester. In the common schools of that place he received all 
the education for which he ever had opportunity. Even at that early age 
he was very helpful to his father in the shop and upon the little farm. 
The boy was fifteen years old at the time of the removal to Clay 
township, and he was then obliged to give up attendance at school, in 
order to assist on the farm. His father losing his health, most of the 
work devolved upon the faithful and diligent son. After his marriage, 
in 1874, he bought two old horses, and undertook jobs of hauling, by 
the day, in different parts of the county. During eight or ten years of 
perseverance at this business, Mr. Kimmel saved the money to buy a lot 
on which he built a home, doing most of the work upon the house 
himself, although he had never regularly learned carpentry; but he was 
naturally gifted with constructive ability. In 1884 he bought 100 acres 
in Cass township, at the price of $2,000. This purchase he made with 
very little cash in hand for payments; but he was energetic and 
industrious, as well as enterprising, and raised the necessary means as 
best he could. Besides his farming, he attended to hauling and took 
various contracts. After spending three years on the farm, Mr. Kimmel 
removed back to Saltillo, where he and some others engaged together in 
the lumbering business; in this occupation he passed three years; then 
returned to the farm for three years more, and then again to his 
operations in lumber, to which he has confined his attention ever 
since. He owns a mill in Cass township and one in Tod township, 
manufacturing and dealing in lumber, lath and shingles. By his own 
energy, industry and business ability, Mr. Kimmel has achieved success 
and secured a comfortable position for himself and family. He is a 
Democrat; has been constable, and is a councilman in Saltillo.
  S. W. Kimmel was married, May 14, 1874, to Maggie, daughter of John 
and Margaret (Cornelius) Kough. Mrs. Kimmel was born in Clay township, 
January 20, 1856. Their children are: John; Myrtle; Melvin J.; Newton 
D.; Lillie P.; Mary Esther; and Edward C. Mr. Kimmel is a member of the 
Baptist church.
  The late Judge Kimmel, of Bedford, was a relative of this family.

Note: His name in the 1870 census is Silinias and Salonis in the 1880 
census