Charles F. Kimmel
Charles F. Kimmel, miller, Dayton, born in Dayton, Ohio, October 15, 1843, and is a son of Augustus B. and Johanna L. Kimmel, who emigrated from Prussia and settled in Dayton, in 1843. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the First Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served in different regiments during the war of the rebellion, being mustered out of service July 7, 1865, at Springfield, Ill. After the close of the war, he traveled extensively over the South as well as all the Western States and Territories, crossing the American plains, Great American Desert and Rocky Mountains six different times. He has traveled upwards of 65,000 miles; on water, 21,000; on foot, 1,600; on cars, 38,000. Upon the 27th of November, 1870, he returned and located in Dayton. September 26, 1871, he was married to Miss Kate Ann Stephens, daughter of John G. Stephens, of Greenville, Ohio, by whom he had three children, viz.: Hattie P., Willomette ___ and Elmer Ellsworth.
From History of Montgomery County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1882