Kempel, Charles B.

KEMPEL

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 13:08:25

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.621

KEMPEL, CHARLES B., farmer, Liberty Township, Sec. 1; P. O. Liberty Center; born May, 1828, in Hessian Province, Germany; parents came to the United States and settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1833, and moved to Junietta county, Pennsylvania; in 1849 he married Elizabeth, daughter of George Frank, of Pennsylvania, February 14, 1850; they have one child: Mary C.; they moved to Huntington county, Pennsylvania, in 1850, and to Pike county, Missouri, in the spring of 1869; came to this county in the fall of 1875 and settled where he now lives, where he has eighty acres of land and a nice, comfortable home; enlisted in December, 1873, ass private, in Co. D, 86th Illinois Infantry; he was honorably discharged June 15, 1865, for disability, caused by a gun shot wound in the right shoulder, which he received at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain June 27, 1864; was in the battles of Buzzards' Roost, Dalton, Ringgold, Rasaca, Dallas City, of Rome and Kingston; was elected justice of the peace in Missouri.