Schuylkill County-STARR & KIMMEL Clans

When the STARR and KIMMEL immigrants landed in Philadelphia, the first settlement in Pennsylvania was little more than a hundred years old. It was a Swedish settlement and its career was brief and checkered. It was not until William Penn aquired title to the Province that people from European countries began to come in large numbers. Between the years 1727 and 1776, 68,000 Germans alone entered through the Port of Philadelphia. They were attracted by the fertile valleys of Pennsylania and the freedom promised them under the rule of the Penn family. The contributions of these immigrants to the social, the economic and political development of Pennsylvania is unsurpassed in the history of American commonwealths.

More than 250 years ago much of the land of Schuylkill country, now known as the Anthracite Coal Region, was known as Saint Anthony's Wilderness. Many of the ancestors from the STARR and KIMMEL families, cleared and cultivated the land, mined the coal fields and provided sons and daughters for the preservation of this new land called America. Peter Starr, one of the first settlers in Branch Township, fought in the War of 1812, his father-in-law Jacob Fuchs, was with George Washington when he crossed the Delware River on Christmas night in 1776. The blood and sweat of these ancestors played a major part in fueling the engine of the Great Americian Industrial Revolution.

My Family History

• Surname List


• Index of Individuals


• InterneTree


• Sources

Family Photos

• Clousers Church, Branch Twp (486 KB)
  Grave site of Peter Starr (1775--1874).
• Kimmel Reuion 1969 (53 KB)
  The Last Kimmel Reunion at Echo Valley , about 1969. Echo Valley is located between Tremont and Pinegrove in Schuylkill County, Pennsylania.
• Theodore R. Starr (36 KB)
  Graduation PAHS 1952
• Carolyn G Starr (14 KB)
  Graduation PAHS 1955
• James A. Starr (21 KB)
  1209 W. Norwegian St Pottsville, PA 1945
• Howard A Starr (14 KB)
  Branch Twp, Schulykill Country, PA, 1920's
• Bertha Mae Kimmel (14 KB)
  Fraily Twp, Schuylkill County, PA, 1920's

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• InterneTree: Descendant Tree of Peter Starr


• Report: Kinship of Peter Starr (View PDF)


• Report: Kinship of Adam Kimmel (View PDF)

Related Links

• Schulykill County's Daily Newspaper
• Gateway to Sch County's West End Coal Mines