ADAM GUMBEL
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ADAM GUMBEL
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ADAM GUMBEL. An honorable position among the agriculturists of Forest City Township, Mason County, is held be the gentleman above named, who is the possessor of two hundred acres of land located on section 24. He is a son of Charles Gumbel, who was born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany, in 1812, and there followed the combined occupations of blacksmith and farmer. He was married in the Fatherland to Miss Sabina Ritter, also a native of the above place, who died in the Old Country. Mrs. Sabina Gumbel became the mother of eight children, of whom Ernest makes his home in Warsaw, this state; Elizabeth married the Rev. George Himmel and lives in Forest City Township; John makes his home in Manito Township; and Adam, of the sketch, is the youngest of the family. After the death of his first wife, Charles Gumbel was married to Catherine Deisher, also a native of the above province in Germany. Their union resulted in the birth of four children, all of whom are deceased. They came to America in 1850 and located on a farm, where our subject is at present making his home. There the father built a log house, in which the family lived until 1863, when he erected a commodious frame structure, which his son is now occupying. His first purchase of land in the New World included forty acres, which was the largest amount he could pay for, as there had been much sickness in his family. He left at his death, in 1884, however, an estate of one hundred and twenty acres of finely improved land. Religiously, he was a member of the Evangelical Church, in which he was Class-leader, and in politics he was a stanch Republican. Adam Gumbel, of this sketch, was born November 7, 1840, in Hesse-Cassel, Germany, and was a lad of nine years when he accompanied his father on his emigration to the United States. As there were no schools in the neighborhood of the new home. His education was very much neglected, and many years of his life after he was old enough to do so were spent in working on his father's farm. When attaining his twenty-sixth year, our subject assumed the management of the home farm, and that same year was married to Miss Christina Stein, a native of Saxony and the daughter of Conrad Stein. Her death occurred in 1875, and the following year, Mr. Gumbel was married to Miss Matilda, daughter of Garrett Bruning, an old settler in this county, who came from Germany and is now deceased. Mrs. Gumbel was born May 22, 1851, and has become the mother of six children; Oscar Adolph, Ernest Frank, George Henry, Myra Margaret, Carl Clarence and Reuben Adam. Our subject is the proprietor of two hundred acres of land, the greater portion of which is the old homestead, The house which he occupies was erected by his father many years ago, but he has lately remodeled it, built a fine barn, set out an orchard and placed those improvements upon the farm which indicates him to be a man of push and enterprise He gives his attention exclusively to the cultivation of land, and besides raising wheat, corn and oats breeds fine grades of stock. Mr. And Mrs. Gumbel are members of the Evangelical Church at Zion, in which the former has served as Trustee. He has been a School Director of District No. 1 for ten years, and has given his children good education in both the German and English languages. Politically, he is a true Republican, and has been Road Commissioner for three years. William Gumbel, a brother of our subject, served as a soldier in the Civil War as a member of Company K, Eighty-fifth Illinois Infantry, of which he was sergeant. He died in 1890, leaving a wife. |