Westmoreland-Somerset County PA Archives Biographies.....Kimmell, Jacob June 9, 1818

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JACOB KIMMELL, a descendant of one of the old substantial German families of
western Pennsylvania and a well-known citizen of Derry township, is a son of
Louis and Sarah (Cable) Kimmell and was born in Somerset county, Pa., June 9,
1818. His great-grandfather, Jacob Kimmell, came from the Rhine, Germany, to
this country in 1751 and located at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa. One of his
sons, Jacob Kimmell (grandfather) was born in 1757 and was a resident of
Somerset county, in which he died in 1824 at sixty-seven years of age. He was a
farmer and reared a family of seven sons and one daughter: Abram, Jacob, Peter,
Solomon, Louis, John, Jonathan and Elizabeth. Louis Kimmell (father) was born in
1790, served in the war of 1812 and came in 1833 to Derry township, where he
died on August 26, 1857. He married Sarah Cable, who bore him ten children, of
whom three are living: Tobias, of Armstrong county; Jacob and Samuel. Those dead
are Mary, Obadiah, George, Catherine, Louis and Sarah. Samuel is a successful
dental surgeon of No. 1316 Walnut street, Philadelphia, who married Mary
Cunningham, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., and a daughter of Hon. J. Cunningham, of
Blair county, Pa. Of his two children, Mary Scott and Dr. Louis J. C., the
latter was a distinguished physician, who was born in 1860 and died of influenza
January 19, 1890. He was interred at West Laurel Hill cemetery.

   Jacob Kimmell at fifteen years of age came with his parents from Somerset
county to Derry township. They moved into the old Guthrie stone house, which was
built in 1795 and which has been the residence of Jacob Kimmell ever since. He
has always followed farming as an occupation and is remarkably active for a man
of his years.

   He was married on the 10th of October, 1844, to Barbara E. Pershing, who was
born October 1, 1824. They have had five children: Mary Examena, born April 10,
1846, and wife of Albert Ford, of Irwin, who is assistant superintendent of the
Penn Gas Coal Company; Sarah Frances (dead); Christina Victoria and Lonie
Elizabeth (twins, deceased); and Edmund B., born May 28, 1852, who is
superintendent of the Millwood Coal & Coke Company, and married Martha C.
Roberts, of Somerset county, Pa., by whom he has three children: John R., Mary
E., and Lorena. 

Mrs. Barbara E. Kimmel is a daughter of Isaac Pershing, who was
born July 19, 1800, and died August 15, 1886. He was a son of Rev. Daniel
Pershing, who was a native of Germany and died in 1838. He had eleven children,
who are now all dead. Their names were: Abram, Isaac, John, Joseph, Samuel,
David, Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary, Sarah and Dinah. Isaac Pershing owned a store at
Youngstown and married Frances Fruxeel, a daughter of Rev. John Fruxeel, of the
U. B. church, by whom he had eleven children: Barbara E., Mary A., born May 17,
1826, wife of D. S. Weaver; Anna Mary, born September 2, 1827, and wife of John
Braden; Christina, born July 15, 1829, and wife of A. Jamison; Martin K., born
December 16, 1830; Rev. Justus H., born June 12, 1847, and a minister of the U.
B. church; Michael T., Eli A., Margaret E., Sarah H. and Franklin K., who are dead.

   Jacob Kimmell and wife are members of Derry station Presbyterian church and
is a republican in polities.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890




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