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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Genealogy Memoirs -
Illustrated - Vol. II
The Lewis Publishing Company - 1906 - CHICAGO - NEW
YORK
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CYRUS F. KUNKLE,
one of the well-known business men of Greensburg, is the
great-great-grandson of Jacob Kunkle, who emigrated
from Germany to the United States for a time lived as a
farmer in Westmoreland county, spending his last yeas,
however, in his former home in eastern Pennsylvania.
He left a son who passed his life in Westmoreland county and
was the father of Michale Kunkle, who was one of the
leading farmers of the county, an influential Democrat, a
member of the German Reformed church, and served as major in
a Westmoreland county regiment. He married Mary
Mechling, and of their eight children two were sons:
Daniel a resident of Greensburg; and Amos, of
whom later. Mr. Kunkle was accidentally killed
by a threshing machine when he had reached the age of
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ELMER AMZIE KUNKLE,
proprietor of the "City Restaurant," Greensburg,
Westmoreland County, Penn., was born May 28, 1871, the son
of Amos and Sarah (Kepple) Kunkle. He was born
on a farm in Hempfield township, about one mile north of
Greensburg. In 1903 he formed a partnership with
John Kettering, and they engaged in teh catering
business, becoming the proprietors of the City Restaurant.
They have been very successful in this line, and the
business grows continuously. Mr. Kunkle
married, Oct. 22, 1903, Alice C. Kemp, daughter of
Arthur Kemp, of Pleasant Unity. |
J. L. KUNKLE,
the genial and popular proprietor of the Kunkle
Hotel, Greensburg, was born in North Huntington township,
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1849, a son of
John L. and Sarah (Baughman) Kunkle, natives of North
Huntington township, members of the Lutheran church, and
whose deaths occurred in 1874 and 1898, respectively.
John L., Kunkle (father) followed the quiet but
useful calling of agriculture throughout the active years of
his life, and was honored and respected by all who knew him.
The common schools of his native county afforded J.
L. Kunkle the means of obtaining a good education, he
completing his studies therein at the age of nineteen years.
For seventeen years thereafter he assisted with the work on
his father's farm and also imported draught horses,
realizing therefrom a goodly profit. At the present
time (1905) he is the owner of the farm in North Huntington
township, on which his mother was born and resided during
her lifetime. After abandoning the business of buying
and selling horses, he leased the Hotel Stark and conducted
the same successfully for twelve years, at the expiration of
which time (1905) he leased the house which was formerly the
property of Dr. H. G. Lomison, and which is now known
as the Kunkle Hotel. This is conducted in a
thoroughly business-like manner, everything pertaining to
the comfort of the guests being attended to promptly, and it
therefore should receive a large share of the patronage of
the traveling public. Mr. Kunkle casts his vote
with the Democratic party, the principles of which he
believes to be for the best form of government. He is
a good citizen and a successful business man. Mr.
Kunkle married, May 20, 1869, Barbara E. Altman,
daughter of Christopher and Barbara (Schull) Altman,
and their children are: Sarah E. M., who became the
wife of Hunter Stone; they reside in East End,
Pittsburg, and are the parents of two children: John L.
K. and Daniel S. Stone, John A., Mary E., died at
the age of eighteen years; and Laura L., resides at
home. |
JOHN E. KUNKLE, junior member of the well known firm of
Robbin & Kunkle, who control a large and important
practice, having their residence and professional
headquarters in Greensburg, the attractive judicial centre
of the county, is a representative of a family that was
established in Westmoreland county in the early pioneer era,
and their name has long been linked with the history of the
old Keystone state.
Michael Kunkle, grandfather of John E. Kunkle,
was a worthy and influential farmer of Westmoreland county,
where he spent his entire life, and where he met his death
as the result of the explosion of the wooden cylinder of an
old fashioned tumbling shaft thresh machine.
Amos Kunkle, father of John E. Kunkle,
was born in Hempfield township, Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, on the old homestead farm. During the
greater portion of this active career he was actively
identified with agricultural pursuits, but for a number of
years he was also engaged in the lumbering business.
He has ever stood high in the esteem of his fellowmen, and
is one of the honored pioneer citizens of the county.
He is now retired from business and maintains his home in
Greensburg. He is a stalwart Republican in politics,
and both he and his wife have long been active and devoted
members of the First Reformed church. He married
Sarah Kepple, also a native of Hempfield township, and
of their children seven are living. John E.
being the oldest in order of birth. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Kungle are representatives of old and
honored families of the county, and both are of sterling
German lineage.
John E. Kunkle was born in Hempfield township,
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, Aug. 16, 1862. HE
passed his boyhood days on the old homestead farm, in the
meantime acquiring his preliminary education in the public
schools. He continued his studies under Messrs.
Chamberlain and Ryckman taught school in
Hempfield township in the winter, and attended the
Greensburg seminary in the summer, preparatory to studying
law. He then took up the study of law in the office of
McAfee, Atkinson & Peoples, of Greenburg, at that
time one of the leading laws firms of the county. He
made excellent progress in his technical reading, and Dec.
17, 1887, at the age of twenty-five years, was admitted to
the bar of his native county, as well as later to practice
in the Superior and Supreme courts. In 1889 Mr.
Kunkle entered into his present professional alliance,
this firm controlling a large and representative legal
business and being concerned in much important litigation.
Mr. Kunkle has shown himself a thoroughly qualified
trial lawyer and one well informed in the minutiae of the
science of jurisprudence, and has ever fortified himself by
close and continuous study and by careful and conscientious
preparation for every cause which he has brought before
court or jury. He is a close observer of the unwritten
code of professional ethics, and commands the esteem of his
confreres and the confidence and regard of his clientele,
while as a citizen he is essentially loyal and
public-spirited. He is a member of the Westmoreland
County Bar Association, and has attained to high degree in
the Masonic fraternity, a member of Kedron Commandery,
Knights Templar, Greensburg, and has risen to the
thirty-second degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, being
identified with the consistory at Pittsburg, while he is
also affiliated with the various York Rite bodies, and is a
Noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine. He is a Republican in politics.
He has long been a member of the First Reformed church and
for years an elder in the congregation as well as secretary
and superintendent of the Sunday school. He is one of
the trustees of Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, and was for a number of years a director of
St. Paul's Orphans' Home, Butler, Pennsylvania., and is now
president of that institution.
Mr. Kunkle married, Aug. 7, 1886, Alice Grant
Walthour, who was born and reared in Adamsburg,
Westmoreland county, daughter of Michael and Cordelia
Walthour. Their children are: Cordelia, who
died at the age of one year; Sara, Katharine, Margaret,
John Edward, Jr., Paul Walthour, Alice Walthour and
Louisa. |
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