Biography of Henry Hummel
Henry Hummel. Perhaps to no one nation does America owe more for the successful development of its farms than to Germany. No better or finer class of people ever came to this country than the German colonists of the ’40s. On the broad prairies and in the forests of the West, in peace and in war, in every branch of human endeavor and human achievement, by brave and honest service they made compensation to the land of their adoption. One of this class of citizens long identified with Champaign County is Mr. Henry Hummel of Dewey. He was born near … Read more