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Born 1810
From History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882)
PHILIP KABEL, farmer, P. 0. Unionsport, was born in Germany January 12, 1810. He came to America in 1832 when a young man. When he landed in Portland, Me., he had about f 10 in money. He soon went to Leister, Worcester Co., Mass., where he worked at carding wool for some time. He came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1834, where he married Miss Mary Goetz, and returned to Cincinnati, Ohio, but in nine months returned to Richmond, Ind. In 1838, he rented a carding machine near Hagerstown, and ran it until 1840, when he came to this county and purchased the Unionsport Carding Machine and Saw-Mill. He followed the business there, and at other points until ISHS. He erected a carding mill on his own land in 1846. Mr. and Mrs. Kabel have had ten children, of whom six are living— Peter, Adam, Frederick, Nicholas, John and Mary (now Mrs. Jasper Hurst). When Mr. and Mrs. Kabel began life he had nothing; but by harl work they have been prospered.
As printed in History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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