BIO:  Alfred Hummel, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Newberry Township, Pg 154

ALFRED HUMMEL, was born at Hummelstown, Dauphin Co., Penn., July 12, 1833, and is 
a son of David and Barbara (Shirer) Hummel, natives of Dauphin County, Penn., and 
of German descent.  His great-grandfather, Hummel, came to this country some time 
in the eighteenth century, and located the village of Hummelstown, and laid out 
the lots and sold them (60x198 feet) at an annual rent of $2.22.  David and 
Barbara (Shirer) Hummel reared a family of nine children – eight sons and one 
daughter – of whom Alfred is the eldest.  Two of the sons are dead, and four of 
the sons and the daughter still reside in Dauphin County, Penn.  Alfred moved to 
Goldsboro in 1879, where his family followed him the following spring.  In his 
youth he learned the carpenter’s trade with his father, but at the age of 
seventeen years went to Harrisburgh, where he worked as journeyman for three 
years.  He then returned to his native place and engaged as a builder and 
contractor until 1869.  He was married at Harrisburgh, Penn., January 1, 1854, to 
Harriet W. Kennedy, a native of Pennsylvania, and of German and Irish descent.  
They had nine children:  William D., died July 4, 1877; Emma L., Arthur L., 
Lizzie B., Winfield Scott, Calvin F., Estella H. and two who died in infancy.  
Mr. Hummel is a Lutheran, and his wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.  
He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.  He has held various public 
offices:  Assessor of Derry Township, Dauphin County, in 1862; collector of taxes 
for the same township; school direct nine years; treasurer of Dauphin County in 
1868, and since coming to York County, as school director.  He is in the employ 
of Isaac Frazer, as manager of the large planning-mill at Goldsboro, and has from 
twenty-five to thirty men under him.