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A. M. DUNKEL, meat market and butcher, Versailles; is a son of David and Anna Dunkel, and was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., on the 28th of August, 1844. David, his father, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Lancaster County in 1803; he was united in marriage with Anna Frealich in 1832; she is a native of the same State and county, born in 1814; they came to Ohio in 1851 locating in Springfield, Clark Co., where he carried on a butcher-shop for several years, when he sold out and moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he kept a boarding house; in 1870, he removed to Darke County, locating in Versailles, where he resides at present; they are the parents of ten children, seven of whom are living; viz., Joseph, David, John, Simon, Aaron M., Benjamin, Anna; Mr. Dunkel is an upright and honest man, a fearless and uncompromising patriot, giving five of his sons to the service of his country during the great rebellion, four of whom returned safe at its close, viz., Joseph, David, Aaron M. and Simon; Mr. Dunkel’s father served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, and three of David’s brothers served in the War of 1812, viz., John, George, Paul. Aaron M., the subject of this sketch, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Cumberland County on the 28th day of August, 1844; came to Ohio with his parents when he was 7 years old; he received a good common-school education; he celebrated his marriage in Dayton, Ohio, on the 3d of December, 1867, with Miss Frances A. Pottle, who was born on the 6th of January, 1848; five children have been born of this union, of whom four are living, viz., D. W. Dunkel, F. J. Dunkel, A. J. E. Dunkel, M. E. Dunkel. He came to Versailles in 1870, and is now the leading butcher in the town, having the most complete meat market in Versailles.