San Joaquin County
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THOMAS WILLIAM HUMMEL
THOMAS WILLIAM HUMMEL, a book
and job printer of Stockton, was born in this city, November 2, 1862, a son of
John and Mary Hummel, both living in 1890, aged respectively sixty-three and
sixty-one. The father, a native of Germany, after some
years’ residence in the Eastern States, came to California in 1849, and was married here. The subject of this sketch received a
full course in the public schools of this city and began to learn the art of
printing at the age of sixteen in the office of the Independent. At the
age of twenty he began to work as a journeyman here and afterward in San Francisco, earning from $2 to $3.50 a day. In 1884 he bought a
half interest in the Stockton Commercial Record, and remained with it two
and one half years. In 1886 he sold out his interest and started his present
business at 363 Hunter street, where he has an excellent modern equipment for
first-class work in his line, his office being fitted up with a view of turning
out as nice work as any on the coast, from a visiting card to a three-sheet
poster, or a two hundred-page book. He also does book binding in all its
branches. Mr. Hummel was married in Oakland in 1885 to Miss Nellie Pope, born
in this county, in 1867, a daughter of T. J. and Mourning (West) Pope,--her
father a well-known rancher of this county; she has two brothers, James and
Grant, who are also ranchers near Lodi, and are both married. She has three
married sisters: Lena, now Mrs. J. Smith of Oakland; Maggie, the wife of H. J. Strother, a rancher near Atlanta; Eliza, the wife of William Ridley, a rancher also of this county. She
has two unmarried sisters, Lillie and Katie, living with their mother in Oakland; also a sister, Carrie, the wife of Fred Smidt, a business man of Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Hummel is a member of the Rebekah Lodge, I. O.
O. F. of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Hummel own a comfortable home in this city.
Mr. Hummel is Deputy Grand Master for District No. 7, I. O. O. F., and a member
of Parker Encampment, No. 3, and Charity Lodge, 46, I. O. O. F. He is also a
member of Stockton Parlor, No. 7, N. S. G. W., and of Court San Joaquin, No.
2,786, A. O. F.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 384. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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