Dear JR,
Sorry, the article doesn't say anything more about the surviving son. There
were also six children by a second marriage, but no names or information is
given about them, either. I don't have the article in front of me, but I
seem to remember that Louis Kimmel died at the home of a daughter in
Washington, DC, but I don't think it gave her name, either. I'll try to
check tonight and let you know if there anything further.
Susan
st peter <stpeter(a)springnet1.com> wrote:
May have something going here. What can you tell me about Louis
Kimmel's son,
the one the servived the cholera epidemic? This may be the hit I need .
JR
"Susan Y. Clawson" wrote:
> Dear JR,
>
> Are you looking for Louis Kimmel? During my search for the German
> community in Lafayette, Robert Kriebel was kind enough to give a list of
> several articles he had published on Germans. He Kriebel published an
> article Louis Kimmel on June 22, 1984, in his Old Lafaytte column in the
> Journal and Courier. This information is taken from that column.
>
> Louis Kimmel was a businessman, journalist, soldier, magistrate, and mayor
> of Lafayette. He was born in the spring of 1828 in Roedgen, Germany. After
> the unrest in Germany that grew out of the failed revolution of 1848,
> Kimmel, his wife, children, and his mother (his father had died) left,
> arriving in Lafayette Aug. 8, 1854. Everyone in the family except Kimmel
> and one son died in the cholera epidemic of that year. Kimmel went on to
> lead a full life. He remarried, became president of the local chapter of
> the German Turner Society, and helped launch a German-language newspaper
> called _Beobachter am Wabash_ (Observer on the Wabash). When the Civil War
> broke out, Kimmel joined the 32nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, an all-German
> unit. After the war he worked for the railroad and went into politics. In
> 1871 he was elected mayor. He was reelected twice, one in 1877 and once in
> 1879. He received several federal appointments, had a street in Lafayette
> named after him, and was active in several local lodges. He died October
> 24, 1910, at the age of 82.
>
st peter <stpeter(a)springnet1.com> wrote
>>Looking for RICHARDSON and KIMMEL in the Lafayette area in the
1830 to
> >1870.
> >any help would be appreciated.
> >JR
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