Isaac Kembel

KEMBEL

Posted By: Tina Keister
Date: 1/19/2006 at 15:16:33

Isaac Kembel, carpenter by trade, Boonesboro, was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1821, and when eighteen years of age move to Illinois, settling in Ogle county, he there resided for twenty-seven years, and in 1867 came to Iowa, locating in this place where he has since lived, December 1856, he was married to Miss Anna V Morrison, a native of Ogle county, Illinois, born March 30, 1840, have four children: Mary E (born March 9, 1861), Henry A (born September 25, 1863), Martha A (born December 23, 1865), and Edna V (born September 24, 1871), since residing here Mr Kembel has been engaged the most of the time in woking at his trade, although of late years he has done but little at it.

From the 1880 Boone County History book