Notes:
Data source is "The Mumma Family" by Samuel H. Mumma 1962 & Moomaw book 1990
Note: information about his 2nd wife was obtained from her obit
1920: Allentown Ward 13, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
1406 Fairveiw Street
Walter M Mumma 29
Isabelle H Mumma 28
Robert M Mumma 5
Harold Mumma 24
1930: Lower Paxton, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
246 Jamestown road
Walter M Munna 32, age 23 at 1st marriage, b: PA/PA/PA, merchant own store
Isabel R Munna 39
Robbert M Munna 15
1940: Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, 301 S Front Street
Walter Mumma 48, divorced, employer wholesale cement
Robert Mumma 25, single, executive, wholesale cement
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From a full page article published in the Sunday Patriot-News Bi-Centennial supplement of Harrisburg, his descendants (Robert Mann Mumma, II & III) claim ---
"Born November 20, 1857 in Dauphin County and died May 12, 1920. He served Dauphin County as Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans Court for four years 1940-1944 and Represented the people of Dauphin County in the Congress of the United States for eleven years until his death..."
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Walter prominent in politics including U. S. Senator from PA. He graduated from the Pennsylvania State Forestry Academy in 1911. Served as Registrar of Wills from 1940-1944. Served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 3 Jan 1951 till his death in 1961. He is uried in mausoleum in East Harrisburg Cemetery
MUMMA, Walter Mann, 1890-1961
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MUMMA, Walter Mann, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Steelton, Dauphin County, Pa., November 20, 1890; attended the public schools of Steelton; graduated from Pennsylvania State Forestry Academy, Mont Alto, Pa., in 1911; employed with the State Forestry Department 1911-1916; with sales department, Lehigh Portland Cement Co., Allentown, Pa., 1916-1921; organizer, president, and manager of the Pennsylvania Supply Co. of Harrisburg, Pa., 1921-1947, and vice president 1947-1951; register of wills, Dauphin County, Pa., 1940-1944; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in Bethesda, Md., February 25, 1961; interment in East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
The Pennsylvania Supply Company was started by Walter Mumma in 1921 to provide quality building materials to contractors in Dauphin and Cumberland Counties. For many years, Pennsy was a small and successful family business. In the 1940's, Walter's son, Robert M. Mumma, began moving Pennsy into new and exciting areas that helped the company grow. Pennsy started purchasing quarries and producing aggregate, expanding into new territories and offering new services. It was a formula for success. Today, Pennsy has over 400 employees offering a range of construction products and services to customers across South Central Pennsylvania.