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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania published in 1905 by The Genealogical Publishing Company. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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MILTON S. MUMMA. Cumberland county, Pa., is one of the best developed farming districts of the Keystone state, and in the township of Silver Spring are found many who have successfully carried on that calling for years, among whom may be mentioned Milton S. Mumma, born one mile north of Mechanicsburg, Oct. 5, 1858, son of Martin and Catherine (Shelly) Mumma, prominent people of that locality.
Milton S. Mumma was reared upon the farm he now owns, and was well-educated in the district schools, after which he chose to be a farmer, and he now owns the old Mumma homestead of 100 acres, well improved and in a good state of cultivation, and he has been eminently successful in all his operations.
On Dec. 23, 1880, Mr. Mumma married Miss Sarah Ellen Eberly, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Eberly, of Hampden township. The Eberly family is one of the oldest in Cumberland county. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Mumma: C. Romaine, Mary Ellen, Martin Eberly and Sarah E. Mr. Mumma is a member of the Republican party, but has not as yet been very active in local affairs. He is very prominent in the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, of which he is a consistent member and treasurer, as well as member of the board of trustees and an elder. Mr. Mumma is a man of sober, temperate habits, is industrious and enterprising, and has won the full confidence of his neighborhood.
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This family biography is one of numerous biographies included in the Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania published in 1905 by The Genealogical Publishing Company.
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