Hon. Valentine Hummel and Elizabeth Walborn

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Husband Hon. Valentine Hummel ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 7 Feb 1787 - Hummelstown, Dauphin Co, PA 1 2 3
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           Died: 4 Sep 1870 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1 3 4
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         Father: Frederick Hummel (1758-1802) 1 2
         Mother: Rachel Rickert (1757-1835) 2

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       Marriage: 18 Mar 1813 4

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Wife Elizabeth Walborn ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1797 4
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           Died: 25 Oct 1867 1 3 4
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         Father: Christian Walborn (      -      ) 4
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Children

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1 F Mary Walborn Hummel ⁴

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         Spouse: Dr. Charles L. Berghaus (      -      ) 4 5

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2 F Elizabeth Hummel ⁴

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         Spouse: William M. Kerr (      -      ) 4

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3 M Franklin Hummel ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Caroline Hummel ⁴

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         Spouse: Jacob S. Haldeman (      -      ) 4

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5 M Richard Henry Hummel ^{4 6}

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           Born: 1826 4 6
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           Died: 6 Oct 1880 4 6
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         Spouse: Eliza Isett Bucher (1834-      ) 4 7
           Marr: 18 Sep 1855 6

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6 F Susan A. Hummel ^{8 9 10}

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         Spouse: Charles Buffington Fager, M.D. (1837/1841-      ) 8 9 11
           Marr: 1865 10

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Valentine Hummel

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The education he received was quite limited, only such as was afforded by the country schools of the time. In 1806 he began as an apprentice to Philip Leebrick, of Hummelstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to learn the trade of a saddler. In 1810 he went to Harrisburg, and forming a partnership with Michael Lebkicher, his old shopmate at Hummelstown, began the saddlery and harness-making business. Messrs. Hummel & Lebkicher subsequently engaged in merchandising, the running of saw- and grist-mills, the lumber trade, and the purchase of land both in the city of Harrisburg and on the Cumberland side of the Susquehanna, until the death of Mr. Lebkicher in 1854, when the survivor retired from all active business.
Mr. Hummel was elected a representative of Dauphin County to the legislative session of 1822-23, and again in that of 1840. Governor Shulze appointed him one of the associate judges of the county, Nov. 12, 1827, a position he resigned March 20, 1837. For one-third of a century he was a director of the public schools, and at the time of his death a trustee of the Harrisburg Academy. A great believer in humane treatment, he advocated, while a member of the school board, the total abolition of corporeal punishment, but without success. For many years he was interested in the old Harrisburg Bank, had served as a director, and at the close of his life was president of that institution.
Of Judge Hummel it may be said, he was a man of great temperateness of habit in all things, was economical and frugal, unostentatious, and enjoyed life in a calm, quiet, and rational manner.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 508.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 122.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 138.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 123.

5 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 585.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 137.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 126.

8 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 572.

9 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 370.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 267.

11 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 266.