HUMMELL, WM.

HUMMEL, HUTTON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/26/2025 at 20:35:18

BURLINGTON CITY.
(P. O. BURLINGTON)

HUMMELL, WM., Principal of South Boundary School; res. 1200 Summer st. ; has been connected with the city schools ten years. ; received his education at Howe's Seminary and Training School in Mt. Pleasant, of which city he is a native, born there May 19, 1844. Entered the U. S. Army in September, 1861 , as a private of G, 11th Iowa Infantry; was mustered out July, 1 865 ; was taken prisoner in the battle before Atlanta, July 22, and taken to Andersonville ; escaped while being transferred to prison in South Carolina ; was recaptured and taken to Charleston, thence to Florence, S. C, where he», was paroled the following December. August 1, 1868, married Mary J. Hutton, born in Mt. Pleasant, Nov. 6, 1848; they have four children— Orlando, born Jan. 8, 1871 ; Wilfred, Jan. 5, 1873; Georgia Mary, 1875; and Stella, 1878. Republican. Owns city property to the amount of $3,000.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879