BIO: George HUMMEL, Cumberland County, PA
  
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 135
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  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.  135
  
  GEORGE HUMMEL, whose death occurred at Mechanicsburg. March 29, 1893, 
  was one of the honest and upright business men, who was held in 
  universal esteem, and whose death left a place not easily filled in the 
  ranks of business, or in the hearts of kindred and friends. Mr. Hummel 
  was born Feb. 7, 1822, in the city of Harrisburg, son of David and Susan 
  (Kunkle) Hummel, the former of whom was born Sept. 8, 1784, at 
  Hummelstown, and the latter May 31, 1790, in Harrisburg, Dauphin county, 
  Pa. Both families are of German extraction, and old settlers of 
  Lancaster and Dauphin counties. The children of David and Susan Hummel 
  were: Catherine, David, Christian, Mary, Elizabeth, Susan, George, 
  Albert, Anna, Emily, and others who died in childhood. By trade David 
  Hummel was a saddler, and at one time was a man of property in 
  Harrisburg, owning a part of the land where the "Commonwealth Hotel" now 
  stands.

  The late George Hummel was educated in the excellent schools of 
  Harrisburg, coming later to Mechanicsburg, Cumberland county, to engage 
  in the lumber and warehouse business, in which he continued many years, 
  amassing a comfortable fortune. He was one of the directors of the First 
  National Bank, of Mechanicsburg, and was its president at the time of 
  his death. In politics, he was an active Republican, and served with 
  much credit as a member of the council of Mechanicsburg, also filling 
  other offices of a public nature. In religious belief and observance Mr. 
  Hummel was a Lutheran.

  In 1850 Mr. Hummel married Sarah Dietz, of York county, who was born 
  Aug. 19, 1825, and five children were born to them, as follows: Luther 
  M., who died at the age of twenty-seven years; Catharine D., of 
  Mechanicsburg; Mary W.; Susan K.; and Elizabeth G., who married John L. 
  Shelley, an attorney at Mechanicsburg. and has six children, Sarah E., 
  Elizabeth G., John L., Jr., D. Hummel, Paul Webster and Rachel.
  Mr. Hummel was always very active in church and Sunday-school work, and 
  was liberal in his donations to all religious affairs. He was known as a 
  man of high moral character, charitable to the poor and devoted to his 
  home and family. His bereaved widow survived him until March, 1898, when 
  she, too, met a Christian death. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hummel were widely 
  known, and were considered with feelings of esteem and affection by a 
  large circle.