George Hummel Sr. (c. 1802 – June 23, 1876) was a miller and early pioneer in Upper Canada, establishing a settlement that would eventually become the village of Chesterville.

[4] The couple had the following children in Williamsburg and Chesterville:[5] Three of his great-great-grandsons from Chesterville would served during the First World War and would be killed in action: Around 1822/1823, Hummel purchased the west half of Lot 18 in the unsettled Township of Winchester from the estate of Marianne Duncan, daughter of Richard Duncan.

The Merkley brothers drowned while transporting supplies upriver and Hummel soon sold the land to Thomas Armstrong and his son who, in 1828, erected a sawmill and grist mill.

Hummel's original house on Mill Street was one of the best built in Dundas, and the loft of the farmhouse was often used for early political meetings.

George Hummel Sr. passed away in Chesterville on June 23, 1876, and is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery along the banks of the Nation River.