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J. F. HUMMEL, proprietor steam granite works, Piqua. Mr. Hummel, a native of Prussia, was born in 1841, and came to the United States in 1852; his parents located here in Piqua and died here, after which J. F., being a boy, floated about. When the first call for troops was made, he enlisted in the three months’ service, in the 1st Ohio V. I.; afterward enlisted for three years in the 79th O. V. I., in which he served until the close of the war. In 1869, he came to Piqua, and worked at marble cutting as journeyman for Daniel Young, whom, in 1871, he bought out, continuing the business here ever since. Mr. Hummel is emphatically a self-made man; left fatherless at 16, he drifted wherever employment could be got; learned his trade; served the Government nearly four years; commenced without capital in Piqua, in 1869, and from his savings, in two years, bought out the little shop in which he was employed; has kept steadily on, enlarged his shop, and now has it filled with Scotch polishing machinery operated by steam. He is a thorough mechanic, an excellent designer, a skillful draughtsman, and the extent of his business is second to none in the State. He has a branch office in Cincinnati, C. G. Hummel, agent. He married in 1865, Miss Hannah Baumgarten, of Shelby Co. They have seven children, six sons and one daughter.