BIO:  Lee MUMPER, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 366-367

LEE MUMPER, photographer, Gettysburg, was born near Dillsburg, York Co., Penn., 
May 7, 1843, a son of Samuel and Catherine (Shultz) Mumper, also natives of York 
County, and of Dutch descent.  His father, in early life, was a farmer, but in 
later years kept a hotel at Harrisburg, Penn., his death occurring in that city; 
and of his seven children Lee is the second.  Our subject was reared in Adams 
County, receiving his education in the district schools in the vicinity where he 
grew up.  When young he learned the cabinet-maker’s trade, at which he worked 
until his enlistment, in 1862, in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. Jennings, in which 
organization he served nine months.  Returning home he learned the art of 
photography with Tyson Brothers, of Gettysburg, and in 1864 embarked in the 
business for himself at Gettysburg.  The title of the firm at present is Mumper 
& Co., who execute both indoor and outdoor work with neatness and dispatch.  The 
studio is at No. 25 Baltimore Street, where all orders receive prompt attention.  
Any special picture of the battle of Gettysburg or mounts is always photographed 
by request, if not on hand.  The firm keeps a full line of stereoscopic views of 
all parts of the battlefield in stock.  In 1865 Mr. Mumper was married to Sarah 
S. Shaffer, daughter of Jacob Shaffer, of York Springs, Penn., and of German 
descent, and to this union have been born nine children:  Jacob, Charles, 
Mammie, Frank L., Elsie, John, Alvin, Clyde and Edgar.  Mrs. Mumper is a member 
of the Lutheran Church.  Mr. Mumper is a member of Post No. 9, G. A. R., of 
Gettysburg.