DIED

KUMMER-- On Sunday afternoon, March 21st, at 2 o'clock, Vincent Kummer, aged 59 years.
The deceased was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, in 1821, and in 1850 or '51 came to America, where he has since resided, most of the time in this vicinity. Twenty years ago he was elected to the office of county treasurer and held the same to the installment of his successor and friend John W. Early. Mr. Kummer, in his office, was very obliging, and, at the same time, prompt and thorough in the transaction of business. There was nothing mean or little about him, but open-handed, large-hearted, generous, magnanimous, kind and tender-hearted as a woman to his friends, (and he had no personal enemies that we know of) he won the esteem of everybody, regardless of political differences.
The deceased leaves behind him his wife, Rosina, whom he married in 1870, who is, we believe, the only relative he had in this country.
His death was not unexpected. For a number of years he had been sorely afflicted with rheumatism, suffering a thousand deaths in the writhing tortures of that disease, which was probably the cause of his appearing to be an old man while yet in middle age. He managed to weather through a number such attacks, appearing again at the Court House with a cheerful word for everyone. But he appeared at his old place for the last time on election day, and now his spirit has passed to the better world, taking its exit as gently, apparently, as a child going to sleep. "He was," says Mr. Jacob Ernst who was present, "conscious to the last, and passed away without suffering. His last words on earth were, 'I'm going to sleep, now,' and he laid his head back," quietly breathing until "the silver chord" was very gently loosed, and his spirit quitted its house of clay.
It was Mr. Kummer's request that his body be carried to the grave by the old settlers and that the exercises be conducted by H.J. Hudson, in English, and Arnold Jaeggi, in German. At the time we are writing [Tuesday noon], preparations are being made for the funeral, which is to take place from the Opera House at 2 o'clock, and will be participated in by the Maennerchor Society, the Kummer Guards, and a large concourse of citizens.

BIO
VINCENT KUMMER

Vincent Kummer was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, in 1820. He attended the schools in his native village, following which he learned the locksmith trade.

In 1850, Mr. Kummer immigrated to the United States. He was a member of the Columbus Company and one of the original group of thirteen men who founded the city of Columbus in May, 1856.

In Columbus, he was engaged in the business of farming and practiced his trade of locksmith. In 1858 he was elected to the office of Platte County Treasurer. He was the first man to hold that position, and he retained it for twenty successive years, until 1878.

In 1870 Vincent Kummer was married to Rosina Gerber. Mrs. Kummer was born in Switzerland in 1846 and came to Columbus from her native land in 1868. She had one brother, Frederick Gerber, Sr., and one sister, Mrs. E. G. Gassman, in the United States. Her sister died in California in the 1930's.

Vincent Kummer died on March 21, 1880. In 1890, Mrs. Kummer was married to Henry T. Spoerry. Mrs. Spoerry died in Columbus in February, 1912.


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You can find the obit about Vincent Kummer from the old newspapers located on the website of Platte County, Nebraska Researchers located HERE it's listed under 1880.

The Bio of his life was taken from M. Curry and is located HERE