“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


CHARLES HUMMEL, farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. Fort Atkinson; was born in 
New York City June 19, 1835; son of Charles and Frances Hummel, the 
former a native of Baden Baden, Germany, born April 6, 1801; came 
alone to New York in 1827, and engaged at his trade of baker.  He 
married Miss Frances Meyer, a native of Alsatia, born in 1811.  In 1850, 
they came to Wisconsin and bought 240 acres of land, in working which 
he was assisted by his son.  Charles married in 1851; had nine children – 
Albert, George, Frances, Charles, James, Gustavus, Edward, Elizabeth 
and John.  He enlisted in Co. C, 4th W.V.I., as Lieutenant, at Fort 
Atkinson, in 1861, and went to Milwaukee, where they were ordered to 
fire on the rioters, but refusing, were disbanded; part of them re-enlisted 
in Co. C, 3d W.V.C.  Mr. Hummel was wounded when coming home, in 
the Morgan raid, at Cynthiana, Ky., and was mustered out at Fort Riley, 
Kan., July 1, 1865.


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