Joseph P. Rummel
Bunker Hill is in Worthington township, three miles east of Butler, and there the boyhood years of Capt. J. P. Rummel were passed. His father, Peter Rummel, located on the Hill in 1844, when the captain was but four years old. The hill never assumed to be a village, but as the location is both conspicuous and commanding, and is the center from which six roads take divers courses, the hill is quite prominent and a church has stood upon its summit for many years. On the corner east of the church was the Rummel residence, one of the largest houses in the township. A store of general merchandise was kept in one end of this building and the other industries of the place consisted of a blacksmith shop and a gun shop. The latter, however, was not at the corners, but a few rods out on the Perrysville road. Reed Dutton, a gunsmith, lived there in the '50s, but the place is now the home of Samuel Spohn. When the first call for troops was made in April, 1861, four men from Worthington township, went to Bellville and volunteered in Capt. Miller Moody's company I, 16th Ohio. They were J. P. Rummel, Willis Clark, John Simmons, and Oliver Lichty. After the close of that term of service Mr. Rummel re-enlisted for three years as a private in Co. B, 120th O. V. I. Before leaving camp Mr. Rummel was promoted to a lieutenant and seven months later wore the bars of a captain, and served his country faithfully until the close of the war. After Capt. Rummel's return from [rest of line omitted] located in Mansfield and engaged in the grocery business, in which he continued for several years and until the burning of the Hedges block, in 1871. Capt. Rummel later engaged in the manufacture of suspenders, in which business he continued for ?5 [first diget unclear] years. From a small beginning his business grew and increased until his plant was one of the largest of the kind in the country, employing from one hundred to two hundred hands. At present the captain is not engaged in business. He has a fine home on Park avenue west, in the fashionable residence part of the city.
From The Mansfield Semi-Weekly News, September 20, 1893