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- John Christian Rummel, son of Isaiah Rummel & his wife Mariah Strycker
1st married Martha Jane Clay Rummel, daughter of Henry Clay & his wife Margaret Weldy Clay
Children
Washington Arthur aka Arthur W Rummel
b 1901
Pearl Ada Rummel b 1902
Hazel Edna Rummel b 1904
Florence I Rummel Meller b 1907
Goldie A Rummel Ganger Masuth b 1909
John 2nd married Eva Dawson Rummel
Wakarusa > E Las Vegas, New Mexico > North Liberty, IN > South Bend, IN
John Christopher Rummel, whose business address in South Bend is 1124 South Main Street, is a native of Northern Indiana, and has had a career in whicb his enterprise has been directed in a diversity of undertakings. He is well known in insurance circles and is also a heating and ventilating contractor.
Mr Rummel was born near Nappanee, Union Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, June 14, 1872, son of Isaiah and Mariah (Strycker) Rummel. His father was born in Ohio, near the Pennsylvania line, was with an Ohio regiment in the Union army during the Civil War, and in 1865, soon after leaving the army, came to Indiana and located his home on a farm in Union Township, Elkhart County. On this farm he lived out his life, being an industrious and highly respected citizen of that locality. His wife was born in Union Township, Elkhart County, her father; Christian Strycker having come to Indiana from Canada. John C Rummel was the second in a family of eight children, all of whom are living except two of his sisters.
Mr Rummel grew up on an Indiana farm, attended a nearby district school, and when he was twenty-one years of age embarked in a business career, as a dealer in farm implements at Wakarusa. To this business he soon added windmills and a lightning rod agency. He was a merchant in Wakarusa for fourteen years. Selling out his business, he moved to New Mexico, bought a section of land and engaged in ranching there. His wife died in New Mexico and he soon afterward disposed of his farm holdings and returned to Wakarusa and for a time was employed by his brother, to whom he has sold the implement business. Mr Rummel for thirty years has a dealer in lightning rod equipment, in windmills, and has at the same time sold fire, lightning and tornado insurance, his business having covered four states. In his business as a dealer and contractor in furnaces and heating equipment he has been established for eighteen years. From 1911 to 1917 his business headquarters were at North Liberty in St. Joseph County, and since 1917 he has been located at South Bend.
Mr Rummel is a director in the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of Goshen, Indiana, and a director of the Hoosier Cyclone Insurance Company. He is a member of the First Brethren Church and is a charter member of the South Bend-Mishawaka Warm Air Heating and Ventilating Association.
He married Miss Martha Clay, a native of Elkhart County, Indiana. Her father, Henry Clay, was an early settler there. Mrs Rummel passed away in New Mexico, leaving six children: W Arthur Rummel, whose career is briefly sketched on other pages; Pearl, at home; Hazel, deceased; Dr Blanch Rummel, an eye specialist of Bloomington, Illinois; Mrs Florence Meller, of Chicago; and Goldie, the wife of Carl Masuth, of Elkhart. Mr Rummel has three grandsons, Arthur Lee and Weir Allen, sons of W Arthur Rummel, and Devon Donald, son of Mr and Mrs Carl Masuth, of Elkhart.
Indiana One Hundred and Fifty Years of American Development
Charles Roll
1931
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1872 - 1951 (78 years)
