Valentine Hummel

Valentine Hummel¹

• Birth*: 7 February 1787; Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania^1,2
• Baptism: 9 April 1787; Zion Evangelical Lutheran, Hummelstown, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania; Sponsors parents²
• Marriage*: 18 March 1813; Pennsylvania; m. 18 March 1813 by Rev. Frederick C. Schaeffer. "Valentin Hümmel mit Elisabeth Walborn"; Spouse:Elisabeth Walborn³
• Death*: 4 September 1870; Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania^4,5
• Burial*: 7 September 1870; Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania⁶

Parents:

Family:

Elisabeth Walborn b. c 1792, d. 25 Oct 1862

• Marriage*: 18 March 1813; Pennsylvania; m. 18 March 1813 by Rev. Frederick C. Schaeffer. "Valentin Hümmel mit Elisabeth Walborn"; Spouse:Elisabeth Walborn³

Children:

Mary Walborn Hummel+ ¹² b. 15 Jan 1814, d. 24 Oct 1892
Elizabeth Regina Hummel+¹³ b. 28 Nov 1819, d. 4 May 1857
Franklin Michael Hummel¹⁴ b. 1 Oct 1822, d. 1876
Caroline Rosina Hummel+¹⁵ b. 28 Jan 1825, d. 9 Mar 1905
Richard Hummel+¹⁵ b. 1826, d. 6 Oct 1880

Notes

• Note*: Bio published in the Harrisburg Evening News:
  "The Late Judge Valentine Hummel
  Born in 1787 in Hummelstown, -which was founded by his ancestor, Frederick Hummel, - Valentine Hummel, after limited schooling, engaged in the saddlery and harness business in Harrisburg as a partner of the late Michael Lebkicher. They afterward engaged extensively in the lumber business and real estate, purchasing tracts of land both in Harrisburg and on the West Shore. Mr. Hummel served in the Legislature in 1822 and again in 1840. Governor John Andrew Shulze appointed him an associate judge for Dauphin County in 1827 and he held that post for ten years when he resigned. For one-third of a century he was a member of the Harrisburg School Board and frequently spoke against corporal punishment in the schools. He also was a trustee of the Harrisburg Academy. In 1868, when he was 82 years old, he was elected president of the old Harrisburg Bank, - now the Harrisburg National, - and held the position until his death in 1870 when he was 84. Judge Hummel, who married Miss Elizabeth Walborn, resided for many decades at 109 South Front street. The accompanying portrait is from a painting by A. A. Rose, of New York City."⁷
• Note: The Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed congregations of Harrisburg shared a church built in 1787. "In 1814 the Lutherans purchased a lot on Fourth Street, between Market and Chestnut Streets, and erected thereon a handsome brick church. [Zion Evangelical Lutheran] ...Rev. F.C. Schaeffer and Valentine Hummel, about a year before, had gone to Litiz and purchased an organ, built by Mr. Bachman, which was now placed in position in the new church."⁸
• Note: Newspaper stories mentioning Valentine Hummel:
  1817 June 24: Active in Harrisburg South Ward politics. (Harrisburg Republican)
  1820 Sept 11: Running for Assembly from Dauphin County as a Democrat (Franklin Gazette)
  1820 Mar 23: Appointed to committee of correspondence by the convention at Lewistown. (Lancaster Free Press)
  1822 Nov 1: Elected to state assembly for Dauphin County. (Berks and Schuylkill Journal)
  1827 Dec 1: Appointed associate judge by governor. (Washington Review and Examiner)
  1828 Jan 26: Appointed to committee of correspondence by the convention at Harrisburg. (Berks and Schuylkill Journal)
  1830 Oct 27: Defeated in run for US Congress in the district composed of Dauphin and Lebanon counties, running as the anti-masonic Clay candidate. (Ithaca Journal, N.Y.)
  1835 May 19: Selected for the central committee at the Democratic State Convention at Lewistown. (Albany Argus, N.Y.)
  1839 Oct 18: Elected democratic Assemblyman. (Albany Argus, N.Y.)
  1840 Aug 27: Nominated as a candidate for congress by the Van Buren delegates of Dauphin county. (National Gazette, Philadelphia)
  1848 Dec 15: Appointments by the governor...in the room of Valentine Hummel whose term of office has expired. (Public Ledger, Philadelphia)
  1866 Nov 1: Port of Honolulu, Passenger arrivals, from San Francisco, a Valentine Hummel (who?). (Friend, Honolulu)
  1869 Feb 10: Recognized as a venerable gentleman of the city; entered the 84th year of his life last Monday. (Patriot, Harrisburg)
  1870 Sept 5: "Hummel - Died early on Sunday morning, September 4, 1870, Valentine Hummel, aged 83 years and 7 months. The funeral will take place from the residence of the deceased, on Front street, on Wednesday morning at half past ten o'clock." (Patriot, Harrisburg) Obituary same date.
  1870 Sept 19: Public notice to creditors. Executors Richard B. Hummel & V. Hummel Berghaus. (Patriot, Harrisburg)
  1870 Sept 29: The vacancy caused by the demise of Hon. Valentine Hummel, president of the Harrisburg National Bank, was [filled] by Dr. George W. Reily. (Patriot, Harrisburg)
  1871 April 28: Notice by Register's Office of accounts to be presented at Orphans' Court on 9 May include the account of the executors of the will of Hon. Valentine Hummel.
  1972 Mar 16: A report by the recently formed Dauphin County historical society recognizes contributors, and "also, through Mr. R. F. Kelker some valuable donations left for the society by the late Hon. Valentine Hummel deceased."⁹
• Note: Will of Valentine Hummel of Harrisburg
  Will written 4 January 1870, codicil 7 Sept 1870, proven 8 Sept 1870.
  To daughter Mary W. Berghause house she occupies and part of the Wormly farm.
  To daughter Caroline R Haldeman the Nissley farm;
  To son Richard H Hummel the Kelso farm and part of the Howard Moore farm and the house he presently occupies adjoining my residence; to grand daughter Elizabeth Reily wife of Dr. George Reily the Eichelberger farm;
  To the same beneficiaries, in trust for the support and maintenance of son Franklin M Hummel, the house the testator presently occupies, and the farm north of the turnpike, and the triangle south being part of the Howard Moore farm.
  Residue to the four children and grand daughter Elizabeth Reily.
  Three houses in Harrisburg to be rented until youngest grandchild is 21.
  
  Executors son Richard H. Hummel and my grand son Valentine Hummel Berghouse.
  Witnesses not recorded.
  Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Wills Vol. 1H, p. 87-88. Abstracted by compiler, viewed on FHL microfilm 21240.¹⁰
• Note: Valentine and Elizabeth Hummel may have had another child. A Rebecca Hummel, buried 4 May 1820, age four years, is listed in the Harrisburg Cemetery records, and is buried in the series of plots once owned by Valentine Hummel.¹¹
• Note: This Valentine Hummel is not to be confused with his nephew Valentine Hummel (1812-1880), son of Frederick (1782) son of Frederick (1758). The nephew was also a resident of Harrisburg, and a publisher of the German weekly 'Morgenroethe", elected register of wills and recorder of deeds in 1850, and afterwards in the grocery and provision business, and was tax collector for various years and districts, and was a trustee of the Fourth Street Lutheran church. Obit Harrisburg Patriot, 27 Aug 1880.⁹