Hardin County OhArchives Obituaries.....Stumm, Calvin E. February 11, 1897
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Ada Record, 17 Feb 1897
From the Ada Record, 17 Feb 1897 (Page 2):

Death of C. E. Stumm

"Cal. Stumm is dead" were the words that in less than an hour had spread over the 
town on Thursday morning, Feb. 11, 1897. No man was more widely known and his 
death was so unexpected that the news spread like a prairie fire. While he was 
building the morning fires his family heard him fall and on going to the room 
found him lying on the floor, death being instantaneous from apoplexy.

Mr. Stumm was one of the oldest citizens of Ada, having come here in 1853, soon 
after the railroad was built through here. He was one of our most intelligent 
citizens, and was an encyclopedia of local history. He was industrious and 
enterprisong and always took a keep interest in the welfare of the town of which 
he was twice elected Mayor, the last term beginning in 1892.

Mr. Stumm was born in Fayette county, Penn., June 30, 1834, and was therefore in 
his 63rd yr. When 18 years of age he came to Ashland county, and in 1853 he moved 
to Liberty township. Mr. Stumm later spent some time attending school at Sidney 
and from 1858 to 1862 he taught the Ada school in the house yet standing on 
Montfort street, just west of Dr. Walters' house, and is used as a dwelling. It 
then stood where V. Rinehart lives.

During the early part of the war he was engaged in stock buying with Samuel 
Lantz, to whose stepdaughter, Miss Malissa Vanbuskirk, he was married by Esquire 
Andrew Runser, on July 4, 1861.

In 1865, he enlisted in defense of his country and became a member of Co. E, 
197th Ohio regiment. On account of illness soon after being mustered in he was 
detailed to clerical work in the quartermaster's department and there continued 
until mustered out at the close of the war. 

Then he and his brother Phillip bought of Wm. League a stock of groceries, 
conducting the business for some time in the old brick that went out in the great 
fire of 1880, which also swept away Mr. Stumm's shop. They sold out after being 
in business some months and C.E. resumed work at the shoemaker's trade which he 
learned in his younger days. 

Besides his wife, he leaves a son, Ewing, of Hutchinson, Kansas, and two 
daughters, Mrs. Nora Stewart, of Neward, and Miss Wilhemina upon whom depends the 
care of an invalid mother. All were present at the funeral services which were 
conducted by Rev. Z. B. Campbell at the house, Saturday, at 2 p.m., the remains 
being accompanied to Woodlawn by Oarman Post 101, G.A.R., of which deceased was a 
member. A large concourse of neighbors and old friends met to pay their last 
tribute of respect to a man who has had much to do with Ada and whose memory will 
not soon be forgotten.

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