Son of Daniel Rumple II and Sarah Jacoby, Daniel grew up in a large family on a farm outside of McGonigle, in Hanover Township, Butler County, OH.
His father was quite prosperous, politically active and well thought of, and along with farming and blacksmithing, he kept an "everything mercantile" store on his land.
Shortly before his mothers death in 1855, his father sold the his farm and moved the family to Hamilton city. There he opened a jointly owned hardware store with his brother in law, which became a thriving business.
Young Daniel became an intellectual and a politico, active in Locofoco, an extreme section of the Democratic Party, also known as the Equal Rights Party.
In 1859, Daniel married Margaret Eyre, the daughter of a local shoemaker. The two were living above her fathers shoe shop in 1860. Altho Daniel had no occupation listed, he apparently ran a staple goods trade out of his fathers new endeavor, the "Rumple Building", in Hamilton.
Right before his father's death, he and his brother William were in Indianapolis, IN, where Daniel was an agent for a sewing machine company, and was also listed as a publisher. It was here that his daughter Margaret was born in August of 1864.
In December of 1864, Daniels father passed away suddenly from the smallpox, leaving his estate bankrupt and overextended. To compound this, his brother William passed of typhoid in January of 1865, leaving a widow and three young children.
His father Daniel Sr had married six months prior, so an intense battle between the children and his new wife over the remainder of the estate ensued. By the time the estate was settled a year later, only 6 of his 12 siblings remained alive, the others having met with accident and illness over the course of the decade since his mothers death. Two of his remaining sisters would die less than a year later during a flu epidemic.
Daniel continued as an agent for the sewing machine company throughout the later part of the 1860s and early 1870s.
It's not known exactly where Daniel and his family (which now included 4 children - soon to be five) were in 1870, however there is rumor that Daniel was caught embezzling from the sewing machine company, which put him and his family back financially repaying the debt. This could explain the families absence in the 1870 census. There is a possibility they removed to Piqua, as the girls seem to have a number of close friends there they visited in later years.
By 1874, the family is found further north in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, and up and coming social and industrial town. Despite whatever setback that occurred with Daniels career prior to this, the family was very well respected and liked, their house well situated in Lima with a prominent street address. All of the daughters are well noted in the local papers as scholars, who then went on to become teachers in Lima's school system. It is unknown what type of occupation Daniel had during this time; the 1880 census simply notes him as "laborer".
In 1880, Daniel's eldest daughter Ida married a prominent lawyer and businessman, James Barry Townsend in 1880, who was at that time the mayor of Lima. Margaret and Millie became socially active school teachers who held musicales and theatre productions, while the boys went into sales. Both Margaret and Harry went to University. In addition, the girls remained well connected to their friends, not only in town, but in Piqua and Hamilton. On numerous occasions they can be found visiting their cousin Mamie Rumple, a well known socialite in Hamilton.
Some time in the late 1880s, it is assumed that Daniel and Margaret divorced after he left her. It was a quiet scandal at the time, for which his daughters never forgave him. He went to Piqua OH where he owned a boarding house and possibly went into manufacturing, however the evidence is unclear. No divorce papers have ever been found, so it was possibly handled by his son in law James Townsend, who was a lawyer.
In 1892 Daniel married the widow Sarah Drake in Piqua, Miami County, OH. Daniel was almost 60, his bride 35. Sarah died four years later and is buried in Forest Hill cemetery.
In 1899, Daniel married 32 year old Jennie Shaffer, the daughter of Harrison and Malisa Shaffer of Lakeview and Bellefontaine in nearby Logan County. At the time she was working for a local packing company in Lima. She adopted a daughter Ruth born in 1902, and managed the boarding house. It is unknown what happened to Ruth, as she is absent from her mother's 1920 census.
Daniel died in 1907 from dysentery. He was 74. Jennie remained in the boarding house, marrying twice before dying in 1927, twenty years after Daniel. She is buried next to him in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
Children with Margaret:
Ida Rumple Townsend (1860-1937) cremated CA
George Edgar Rumple (1862-1832) NJ
Margaret Rumple (1864-1956) CA
Mildred R Lundell (1867-1955) cremated CA
Harry Rumple (1871-1930) NY
His father was quite prosperous, politically active and well thought of, and along with farming and blacksmithing, he kept an "everything mercantile" store on his land.
Shortly before his mothers death in 1855, his father sold the his farm and moved the family to Hamilton city. There he opened a jointly owned hardware store with his brother in law, which became a thriving business.
Young Daniel became an intellectual and a politico, active in Locofoco, an extreme section of the Democratic Party, also known as the Equal Rights Party.
In 1859, Daniel married Margaret Eyre, the daughter of a local shoemaker. The two were living above her fathers shoe shop in 1860. Altho Daniel had no occupation listed, he apparently ran a staple goods trade out of his fathers new endeavor, the "Rumple Building", in Hamilton.
Right before his father's death, he and his brother William were in Indianapolis, IN, where Daniel was an agent for a sewing machine company, and was also listed as a publisher. It was here that his daughter Margaret was born in August of 1864.
In December of 1864, Daniels father passed away suddenly from the smallpox, leaving his estate bankrupt and overextended. To compound this, his brother William passed of typhoid in January of 1865, leaving a widow and three young children.
His father Daniel Sr had married six months prior, so an intense battle between the children and his new wife over the remainder of the estate ensued. By the time the estate was settled a year later, only 6 of his 12 siblings remained alive, the others having met with accident and illness over the course of the decade since his mothers death. Two of his remaining sisters would die less than a year later during a flu epidemic.
Daniel continued as an agent for the sewing machine company throughout the later part of the 1860s and early 1870s.
It's not known exactly where Daniel and his family (which now included 4 children - soon to be five) were in 1870, however there is rumor that Daniel was caught embezzling from the sewing machine company, which put him and his family back financially repaying the debt. This could explain the families absence in the 1870 census. There is a possibility they removed to Piqua, as the girls seem to have a number of close friends there they visited in later years.
By 1874, the family is found further north in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, and up and coming social and industrial town. Despite whatever setback that occurred with Daniels career prior to this, the family was very well respected and liked, their house well situated in Lima with a prominent street address. All of the daughters are well noted in the local papers as scholars, who then went on to become teachers in Lima's school system. It is unknown what type of occupation Daniel had during this time; the 1880 census simply notes him as "laborer".
In 1880, Daniel's eldest daughter Ida married a prominent lawyer and businessman, James Barry Townsend in 1880, who was at that time the mayor of Lima. Margaret and Millie became socially active school teachers who held musicales and theatre productions, while the boys went into sales. Both Margaret and Harry went to University. In addition, the girls remained well connected to their friends, not only in town, but in Piqua and Hamilton. On numerous occasions they can be found visiting their cousin Mamie Rumple, a well known socialite in Hamilton.
Some time in the late 1880s, it is assumed that Daniel and Margaret divorced after he left her. It was a quiet scandal at the time, for which his daughters never forgave him. He went to Piqua OH where he owned a boarding house and possibly went into manufacturing, however the evidence is unclear. No divorce papers have ever been found, so it was possibly handled by his son in law James Townsend, who was a lawyer.
In 1892 Daniel married the widow Sarah Drake in Piqua, Miami County, OH. Daniel was almost 60, his bride 35. Sarah died four years later and is buried in Forest Hill cemetery.
In 1899, Daniel married 32 year old Jennie Shaffer, the daughter of Harrison and Malisa Shaffer of Lakeview and Bellefontaine in nearby Logan County. At the time she was working for a local packing company in Lima. She adopted a daughter Ruth born in 1902, and managed the boarding house. It is unknown what happened to Ruth, as she is absent from her mother's 1920 census.
Daniel died in 1907 from dysentery. He was 74. Jennie remained in the boarding house, marrying twice before dying in 1927, twenty years after Daniel. She is buried next to him in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
Children with Margaret:
Ida Rumple Townsend (1860-1937) cremated CA
George Edgar Rumple (1862-1832) NJ
Margaret Rumple (1864-1956) CA
Mildred R Lundell (1867-1955) cremated CA
Harry Rumple (1871-1930) NY
Son of Daniel Rumple II and Sarah Jacoby, Daniel grew up in a large family on a farm outside of McGonigle, in Hanover Township, Butler County, OH.
His father was quite prosperous, politically active and well thought of, and along with farming and blacksmithing, he kept an "everything mercantile" store on his land.
Shortly before his mothers death in 1855, his father sold the his farm and moved the family to Hamilton city. There he opened a jointly owned hardware store with his brother in law, which became a thriving business.
Young Daniel became an intellectual and a politico, active in Locofoco, an extreme section of the Democratic Party, also known as the Equal Rights Party.
In 1859, Daniel married Margaret Eyre, the daughter of a local shoemaker. The two were living above her fathers shoe shop in 1860. Altho Daniel had no occupation listed, he apparently ran a staple goods trade out of his fathers new endeavor, the "Rumple Building", in Hamilton.
Right before his father's death, he and his brother William were in Indianapolis, IN, where Daniel was an agent for a sewing machine company, and was also listed as a publisher. It was here that his daughter Margaret was born in August of 1864.
In December of 1864, Daniels father passed away suddenly from the smallpox, leaving his estate bankrupt and overextended. To compound this, his brother William passed of typhoid in January of 1865, leaving a widow and three young children.
His father Daniel Sr had married six months prior, so an intense battle between the children and his new wife over the remainder of the estate ensued. By the time the estate was settled a year later, only 6 of his 12 siblings remained alive, the others having met with accident and illness over the course of the decade since his mothers death. Two of his remaining sisters would die less than a year later during a flu epidemic.
Daniel continued as an agent for the sewing machine company throughout the later part of the 1860s and early 1870s.
It's not known exactly where Daniel and his family (which now included 4 children - soon to be five) were in 1870, however there is rumor that Daniel was caught embezzling from the sewing machine company, which put him and his family back financially repaying the debt. This could explain the families absence in the 1870 census. There is a possibility they removed to Piqua, as the girls seem to have a number of close friends there they visited in later years.
By 1874, the family is found further north in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, and up and coming social and industrial town. Despite whatever setback that occurred with Daniels career prior to this, the family was very well respected and liked, their house well situated in Lima with a prominent street address. All of the daughters are well noted in the local papers as scholars, who then went on to become teachers in Lima's school system. It is unknown what type of occupation Daniel had during this time; the 1880 census simply notes him as "laborer".
In 1880, Daniel's eldest daughter Ida married a prominent lawyer and businessman, James Barry Townsend in 1880, who was at that time the mayor of Lima. Margaret and Millie became socially active school teachers who held musicales and theatre productions, while the boys went into sales. Both Margaret and Harry went to University. In addition, the girls remained well connected to their friends, not only in town, but in Piqua and Hamilton. On numerous occasions they can be found visiting their cousin Mamie Rumple, a well known socialite in Hamilton.
Some time in the late 1880s, it is assumed that Daniel and Margaret divorced after he left her. It was a quiet scandal at the time, for which his daughters never forgave him. He went to Piqua OH where he owned a boarding house and possibly went into manufacturing, however the evidence is unclear. No divorce papers have ever been found, so it was possibly handled by his son in law James Townsend, who was a lawyer.
In 1892 Daniel married the widow Sarah Drake in Piqua, Miami County, OH. Daniel was almost 60, his bride 35. Sarah died four years later and is buried in Forest Hill cemetery.
In 1899, Daniel married 32 year old Jennie Shaffer, the daughter of Harrison and Malisa Shaffer of Lakeview and Bellefontaine in nearby Logan County. At the time she was working for a local packing company in Lima. She adopted a daughter Ruth born in 1902, and managed the boarding house. It is unknown what happened to Ruth, as she is absent from her mother's 1920 census.
Daniel died in 1907 from dysentery. He was 74. Jennie remained in the boarding house, marrying twice before dying in 1927, twenty years after Daniel. She is buried next to him in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
Children with Margaret:
Ida Rumple Townsend (1860-1937) cremated CA
George Edgar Rumple (1862-1832) NJ
Margaret Rumple (1864-1956) CA
Mildred R Lundell (1867-1955) cremated CA
Harry Rumple (1871-1930) NY
His father was quite prosperous, politically active and well thought of, and along with farming and blacksmithing, he kept an "everything mercantile" store on his land.
Shortly before his mothers death in 1855, his father sold the his farm and moved the family to Hamilton city. There he opened a jointly owned hardware store with his brother in law, which became a thriving business.
Young Daniel became an intellectual and a politico, active in Locofoco, an extreme section of the Democratic Party, also known as the Equal Rights Party.
In 1859, Daniel married Margaret Eyre, the daughter of a local shoemaker. The two were living above her fathers shoe shop in 1860. Altho Daniel had no occupation listed, he apparently ran a staple goods trade out of his fathers new endeavor, the "Rumple Building", in Hamilton.
Right before his father's death, he and his brother William were in Indianapolis, IN, where Daniel was an agent for a sewing machine company, and was also listed as a publisher. It was here that his daughter Margaret was born in August of 1864.
In December of 1864, Daniels father passed away suddenly from the smallpox, leaving his estate bankrupt and overextended. To compound this, his brother William passed of typhoid in January of 1865, leaving a widow and three young children.
His father Daniel Sr had married six months prior, so an intense battle between the children and his new wife over the remainder of the estate ensued. By the time the estate was settled a year later, only 6 of his 12 siblings remained alive, the others having met with accident and illness over the course of the decade since his mothers death. Two of his remaining sisters would die less than a year later during a flu epidemic.
Daniel continued as an agent for the sewing machine company throughout the later part of the 1860s and early 1870s.
It's not known exactly where Daniel and his family (which now included 4 children - soon to be five) were in 1870, however there is rumor that Daniel was caught embezzling from the sewing machine company, which put him and his family back financially repaying the debt. This could explain the families absence in the 1870 census. There is a possibility they removed to Piqua, as the girls seem to have a number of close friends there they visited in later years.
By 1874, the family is found further north in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, and up and coming social and industrial town. Despite whatever setback that occurred with Daniels career prior to this, the family was very well respected and liked, their house well situated in Lima with a prominent street address. All of the daughters are well noted in the local papers as scholars, who then went on to become teachers in Lima's school system. It is unknown what type of occupation Daniel had during this time; the 1880 census simply notes him as "laborer".
In 1880, Daniel's eldest daughter Ida married a prominent lawyer and businessman, James Barry Townsend in 1880, who was at that time the mayor of Lima. Margaret and Millie became socially active school teachers who held musicales and theatre productions, while the boys went into sales. Both Margaret and Harry went to University. In addition, the girls remained well connected to their friends, not only in town, but in Piqua and Hamilton. On numerous occasions they can be found visiting their cousin Mamie Rumple, a well known socialite in Hamilton.
Some time in the late 1880s, it is assumed that Daniel and Margaret divorced after he left her. It was a quiet scandal at the time, for which his daughters never forgave him. He went to Piqua OH where he owned a boarding house and possibly went into manufacturing, however the evidence is unclear. No divorce papers have ever been found, so it was possibly handled by his son in law James Townsend, who was a lawyer.
In 1892 Daniel married the widow Sarah Drake in Piqua, Miami County, OH. Daniel was almost 60, his bride 35. Sarah died four years later and is buried in Forest Hill cemetery.
In 1899, Daniel married 32 year old Jennie Shaffer, the daughter of Harrison and Malisa Shaffer of Lakeview and Bellefontaine in nearby Logan County. At the time she was working for a local packing company in Lima. She adopted a daughter Ruth born in 1902, and managed the boarding house. It is unknown what happened to Ruth, as she is absent from her mother's 1920 census.
Daniel died in 1907 from dysentery. He was 74. Jennie remained in the boarding house, marrying twice before dying in 1927, twenty years after Daniel. She is buried next to him in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
Children with Margaret:
Ida Rumple Townsend (1860-1937) cremated CA
George Edgar Rumple (1862-1832) NJ
Margaret Rumple (1864-1956) CA
Mildred R Lundell (1867-1955) cremated CA
Harry Rumple (1871-1930) NY
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buried 12/29/1907 age 74 born Ohio
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