Résumé

Military service, World War I and II.

Partner, F.C. Hummel, Architect, Boise, ID, 1942. On 04/27/1942, this office was located in Room #216 of the Capital Securities Building in Boise.

Relocation

Francis Konrad Hummel was born in Snohomish County, WA, on 08/10/1892. They moved to Boise, ID, by or before 1899. The following year they had a residence at 516 13th Street in Boise. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Boise Ward 2, Ada, Idaho; Roll: 231; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 0004; FHL microfilm: 1240231, accessed 08/31/2022.)

On 04/27/1942, Frank Hummel resided at 3220 Crescent Rim Drive in Boise. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives At St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Box or Roll Number: 24, accessed 08/31/2022.) The architect continued to live at this address at this death in 1961.

He passed away in Boise on 08/19/1961 from an intestinal hemorrhage due to a duodenal ulcer which he had had for two years.He was buried in Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Idaho Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Boise, Idaho; Death Index and Images, 1911–1969, accessed 08/31/2022.)

Parents

His father was the architect Charles F. Hummel (born 04/1858 in Germany). According to the 1900 US Census, Charles immigrated to the US in 1886 and had been naturalized by this time. He settled in Snohomish County, WA, by the early 1890s, where his son Frank was born. By 1899, he and his family had relocated to Boise, ID, where Frank's sister Mary was born. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Boise Ward 2, Ada, Idaho; Roll: 231; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 0004; FHL microfilm: 1240231, accessed 08/31/2022.)

His mother was Marie Konrad (born 09/1862 in Germany), who came to the US in 1889. The 1900 Census noted that she and Charles had had six children, four of whom survived in that year. These children included: Ernest A. Hummel (born c. 07/1883 in Germany), Fritz C. Hummel (born c. 09/1884 in Germany) and Mary E. Hummel (born 11/1899 in ID). (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Boise Ward 2, Ada, Idaho; Roll: 231; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 0004; FHL microfilm: 1240231, accessed 08/31/2022.)

Spouse

He wed Violet Zimmerman (born 12/04/1897 in Savannah. MO-d. 06/09/1940 in Los Angeles, CA) on 10/07/1916 in Boise, ID. They did not remain married long, as Violet remarried engineer Percival Horace Chambers (born 04/18/1892 in New York, NY-d. 07/13/1976 in Los Angeles County, CA), by at least 1922. In that year, she lived with him in Long Beach, CA. (See Long Beach, California, City Directory, 1922, p. 217.) In 1933, she returned from a trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina with her husband. She and Chambers lived at 705 Linden Drive in Beverly Hills, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving At San Pedro/Wilmington/Los Angeles, California; NAI Number: 4486355; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85, accessed 08/31/2022.) Percival Chambers worked as a civil engineer in Boise in 1920, and likely met Violet there. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Boise, Ada, Idaho; Roll: T625_287; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 5, accessed 08/31/2022.)

Frank married again to Anne Davies (born 10/14/1887 in KS-d. 07/17/1966 in Boise, ID). Her parents were Elizabeth Jones (born c. 10/1865 in Wales) and Rees D. Davies (born c. 07/1858 in Wales). Rees was a bridge tender (in 1900) and carpenter (by 1920) who migrated to the US in 1871, and had been naturalized before 1900. He and Elizabeth resided first in KS c. 1887 and then relocated to Portland, OR, by at least 1889. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Portland Ward 9, Multnomah, Oregon; Roll: 1350; Page: 11; Enumeration District: 0075; FHL microfilm: 1241350, accessed 08/31/2022 and Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon; Roll: T625_1502; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 130, accessed 08/31/2022.)

Biographical Notes

Francis Hummel went by the name "Frank" during his career.

As per his World War II draft registration card, Frank Hummel was Caucasian with a light brown complexion, gray eyes and brown hair. he stood six-feet, 3/4-inches tall and weighed 165 pounds at age 49. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives At St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Box or Roll Number: 24, accessed 08/31/2022.)