John Conrad Dunkel and Catharine Dunkel

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Husband John Conrad Dunkel ¹

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           Born: 26 Jun 1832 - Buffalo Twp, Union Co, PA 2
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         Father: Michael Dunkel (1803-1893) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Stitzer (1805-1877) 2

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       Marriage: 3 Jan 1856 2

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Wife Catharine Dunkel ⁴

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           Born: 9 Oct 1833 2
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         Father: John S. Dunkel (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Leah Dreisbach (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Mary Elizabeth Dunkel ^{5 6}

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         Spouse: Daniel Norman App (1853-      ) 6 7 8
           Marr: 8 Feb 1882 5

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2 M Charles E. Dunkel ⁵

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3 M William Dunkel ⁵

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4 M James M. Dunkel ⁵

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5 M Martin L. Dunkel ⁵

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6 F Katy S. Dunkel ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - John Conrad Dunkel

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He was born at the old family homestead, and was educated mainly in that district, attending first the McClure school house on Turtle creek. He studied a short time at Mifflinburg Academy, and had an excellent chance to obtain an education, but he did not especially care for study and his father permitted him to stay at home, where he delighted in being around the horses. With his natural inclination for farm life and his thorough practical training in its details, he became one of the leading agriculturists of his county.
After marriage, he continued to reside at the family homestead until 1887, when he removed to a lot of five acres in East Buffalo township, near Salem church. He still owned ninety-eight acres of the old homestead, and another tract of twenty-five acres in the same township, besides 140 acres in East Buffalo township, making altogether more than 300 acres. At one time he owned property in Kansas, and he made several trips to the West. For eighteen years he was identified with the Grange, but after his retirement from active business he gave his attention to other lines of thought. He read a great deal, and was fond of good company, in which his own conversational powers make him thoroughly at home.
He believed firmly in the principles of the Republican party, but in local affairs voted for the best man, whatever ticket he may have been on. He served for some time as school director in East Buffalo township, and held several township offices at his former home. He united with the Evangelical Church in his youth, and for thirty-one years was a trustee in Salem Church. While living in Buffalo township he was for a time a deacon in Dreisbach Church.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1101, 1182.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1183.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1182.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1101, 1183.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1101.

6 John A. M. Ziegler, Ph.D., D.D, Ziegler Genealogy (Huntington Park, CA: Glenn Printing Co., 1935), Pg 9.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 926.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1096.