Frederick Kunkle and Leah Barnhart

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Husband Frederick Kunkle ¹

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            AKA: [Unk] Kunkle 2
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Wife Leah Barnhart ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died:  - near Apollo, Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Father: William Barnhart, Jr. (1781-1820) 1 3 4
         Mother: Catherine Rumbaugh (1784-1860) 1 3 5

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Frederick Kunkle

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near Apollo, Westmoreland Co, PA
North Washington, Westmoreland Co, PA

He was of an inventive nature, and spent a large portion of his time and means in trying to perfect a perpetual motion machine. One of his brothers was the inventor of the steam whistle, used on locomotives.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 92.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1254.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 655.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 102, 335, 1254.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 335.