BIO: M. F. SHIMEL, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 569.
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  M. F. SHIMEL, one of the busy and substantial business men of Boggs township, 
who owns 120 acres of excellent land here, is also the proprietor and operator 
of a chop and shingle mill at Wallaceton, Pa.  He was born in Boggs township, 
May 11, 1861, and is the fourth child of G. W. and Margaret (Shaw) Shimel.
  G. W. Shimel, father of M. F., was born in Clearfield county, a son of G. W. 
Shimel.  He was a carpenter by trade and also engaged in farming in Boggs 
township for many years.  He married Margaret Shaw, who was also born in 
Clearfield county, and their children were:  Alice (deceased); D. D., N. J., M. 
F., C. W., I. G., and L. L., all prosperous business men; and Alice (2d), who is 
the wife of Harry Peters.  The parents of this family were members of the Church 
of God.
  M. F. Shimel obtained his education in the common schools, after which he 
learned the carpenter's trade and to some degree he has followed it all his 
life, together with saw-mill work.  For ten years before he purchased his mill 
at Wallacetown he operated it on rental, but in 1907 he bought the mill and with 
the assistance of his sons he has operated it to great advantage ever since.  He 
owns twenty acres in the home farm and 100 acres in a second farm, both tracts 
lying in Boggs township.
  Mr. Shimel was married in 1884, to Miss Susan Kephart, a daughter of Benjamin 
F. and Jane (Geargart) Kephart, early families in Clearfield county.  Mrs. 
Shimel was the fifth born in the following family:  Jessie; William P.; Edward; 
Pauline, deceased, who was the wife of Ellis Smeal; Cornelia, deceased, who was 
the wife of Samuel Ritchey; Mary, who is the wife of Abraham Wisor; and Susan.  
Mr. and Mrs. Shimel have the following children:  Ellsworth, Berva, Homer, 
Beulah, Eva, Willard, Wesley, Esther and Clyde.  The eldest daughter is the wife 
of Henry Willett.  Mr. Shimel and family are members of the Church of God.  With 
his sons Mr. Shimel casts his vote with the Prohibition party.