BIO: John RUMMEL, 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, pages 398-399.
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  JOHN RUMMEL, Mount Union, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in 
Franklin county, November 22, 1833. He is the son of William and 
Catherine (Springer) Rummel, and is of German descent. His grandfather, 
Jacob Rummel, was born in Adams county, Pa. He was a weaver, and 
cultivated a farm. He had twelve children all of whom are dead. William 
Rummel, father of John Rummel, was a native of Adams county, and was 
also a weaver. For some time he was school director. In 1830 he was 
married to Catharine, daughter of John and Margaret (Zullinger) 
Springer, born near Mercersburg, Franklin county, Pa. Their children 
are: Margaret (Mrs. George Barnhard); John; Martha, widow of Frank 
Conrad; William; Daniel; Sarah, widow of Henry Sheip; Jacob, died 1890; 
and Elizabeth, deceased. Mr. Rummel died in 1869, aged sixty-nine. His 
wife died in 1891, aged eighty-two.
  John Rummel attended public schools until he was fifteen. For four 
years he worked in a distillery. He was engaged in milling near 
Waynesboro, Franklin county, and in Maryland. Here he remained for a 
year and a half, when he returned to Franklin county, worked in St. 
Thomas for one year and in Upton for eight years. In 1866 Mr. Rummel 
went to Huntingdon county, and in 1868, to Mount Union, where he is 
still engaged in milling. He was school director for three years; was 
re-elected in 1894 and served for a year and a half. He is a Democrat.
  John Rummel was married December 9, 1858, to Elizabeth, daughter of 
John W. and Mary (Hisey) Henkel. Their children are: William D.; Anna 
Mary; Lewis; and J. Frank.
  Mrs. Rummel's parents were natives of Germany and came to America 
about sixty years ago. Mr. Henkel was a farmer and grocer in Lanark, 
Ill. Their children are: Lewis H.; Elizabeth (Mrs. John Rummel); Kate 
(Mrs. Samuel Sweigard); and Mary, who died in 1868. Mr. Henkel died in 
Lanark, Ill., in 1892, aged eighty years; his wife died in 1852. They 
were members of the Dunkard church.