Hardin County OhArchives Obituaries.....Stumm, Jeremiah May 5, 1908 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kyla Cathey kyla.cathey@gmail.com April 20, 2018, 8:26 pm Ada Record, 13 May 1908 and 3 Jun 1908 From the Ada Record, 13 May 1908 (Page 1): Obitary [sic] of Jeremiah Stumm Jeremiah Stumm, the elder brother of Calvin E. and Thomas Stumm, both deceased, and P.W. Stumm, of Paulding, all of whom were former citizens here, died at Rushville, Illinois, on May 5, 1908 in his 82nd year. Deceased was the first child born to Phillip and Rebecca Stumm, the event occurring on April 13, 1827 in Springhill township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. The subject of this sketch was married there and his wife died a few years later, leaving one son, Jeremiah, who was a resident here a few years but whose whereabouts is now unknown. In 1855 Mr. Stumm went to Illinois, then a new state, and settled where he died. He visited in this place twice, once when his father died and once sometime later. He came here with his parents when they moved here but did not stay. He never married again. He was an architect and civil engineer and served continuously for 36 years as surveyor of Schuyler county, Illinois, which speaks well of his ability as an official and his worthiness as a man. The remains reached here Thursday morning and were met by his brother, Attorney P.W. Stumm, of Paulding, and the interment took place at Woodlawn at 8 p.m. that day. The remains were accompanied here by J.R. Leary, for thirty years a friend and neighbor of the deceased. From the Uniontown News Standard, reprinted in the Ada Record, 3 Jun 1908 (Page 4): In Memory of Jeremiah Stumm Jeremiah Stumm was born in Springhill township, Fayerre County, Pa., April 18, 1827 and died at Rushville, Illinois, May 5, 1908, aged 81 years and 22 days. He was the eldest son of Phillip and Rebecca (Burchinal) Stumm. He commenced to work at the carpenter trade with his uncle Jeremiah Burchinal, in April, 1845, and continued to work at his trade in West Virginia, Waynesburg, Pa, and Brownsville, Uniontown and in Westmoreland county, until the year 1852 he went to Ohio, with his parents. After going to Ohio he worked at College Hill, near Cincinnati, and in Cleveland, until May 10, 1855, when he went to Doylestown, Pa. and superintended the erection of the Beck exposition building, which was the financial ruin of Mr. Beck the projector. After leaving Doylestown he spent the winter in Western Pennsylvania, and from there to Rushville, in December, 1856. In January, 1857, he took the contract to build the stone jail building in Rushville, which occupied his time till August, 1858. He followed the carpenter trade until 1868, when he entered upon his duties of county surveyor having been elected in the November proceeding. He served continuously in the position of county surveyor for the term of [illegible] years. Of the Phillip Stumm family, there remains living the only daughter, Mrs. Mary R. Loutzenhiser, of Route No. 2, Paulding, Ohio. The deceased first attended school near Morris Cross Roads, Mrs. Esther Keiser being his first teacher. Only a few years past Jerry and his old teacher renewed the acquaintance of former years, and his old teacher addressed him as her dear school boy, he having addressed her as his dear teacher of his boyhood days. His remains were taken to Ohio, by request of his only living brother, and deposited in a family lot in Woodlawn cemetery near Ada, Ohio, May 7, 1908. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/obits/s/stumm2780ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb