BIO: Jacob Mumma, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

427  BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

  JACOB MUMMA, retired farmer, Mechanicsburg, was born six miles east 
of Harrisburg, in Swatara Township, Dauphin Co., Penn., September 14, 
1809.  His parents, John and Elizabeth (Frantz) Mumma, were natives of 
Pennsylvania, and members of the Mennonite Church.  They had a family 
of four sons and two daughters.  Jacob, the second son and third child, 
remained on the farm with his father until his marriage, January 19, 
1832, with Miss Elizabeth Nissley, born in Dauphin County, Penn., 
daughter of Martin and Elizabeth (Kreider) Nissley.  Mr. and Mrs. Mumma 
moved to Lancaster County, Penn., in 1835, and engaged in farming until 
1839, and there Mrs. Mumma died March 20, 1836.  The family consisted 
of two sons and one daughter:  Martin, who resides on the 

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old homestead farm of his father, one-half mile north of Mechanicsburg; 
John, who resides on a farm a mile south of Mechanicsburg, and Anna, 
wife of Levi Musselman, resides on a farm three miles southeast of 
Mechanicsburg.  In the spring of 1839 Jacob Mumma came to Cumberland 
County and bought a farm in Monroe Township, afterward purchasing the 
old homestead farm in Silver Spring Township.  Our subject was married 
on second occasion December 1, 1836, to Mrs. Catharine Rupp, born in 
Cumberland County, daughter of John and Anna (Snavely) Eberly, and who 
died May 1, 1861, the mother of six children, four living:  Jacob E., 
farmer and stock dealer; Amos, a miller in Upper Allen Township; Eli, 
farmer in Upper Allen Township; Eliza, wife of Christian Hertzler, a 
farmer in Hampden Township.  Mr. Mumma married September 25, 1862.  His 
present wife, Mrs. Mary Hertzler was born in Lancaster County, Penn., 
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Kauffman) Schoph.  To this union has 
been born one daughter, Emma, who resides with her parents.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Mumma are members of the Mennonite Church at Slate Hill.  Mr. 
Mumma is one of the founders of what is now the First National Bank of 
Mechanicsburg (the others are Levi Merkel, deceased, who had 
established a private bank, John Brandt, John Sadler, Levi Eberly, 
Samuel Eberly, Jacob Eberly, John Niesley, Solomon P. and William R. 
Gorgas).  Mr. Mumma is one of the solid retired business men whose life 
has been one of interest and success, and has been identified with the 
county since 1839.  He is of German descent and his ancestors were 
among the earliest pioneers of Pennsylvania, his great-great-
grandfather having come from Switzerland to this country to settle in 
Lancaster County, Penn., as early as 1731.