Data source is Bob Watts, P.O. Box 357, Nelsonia, VA 23414. e-mailrbwatts@peoplepc.com
Data source is George Browder Mumma, Jr. E-mail jeffcoda8@gmail.com
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Lexington (Kentucky) Herald, Monday, December 7, 1914:
MUMMA'S ASSOCIATES MEET BODY AT TRAIN
Father and Dr. Graham Accompany Remains to Virginia for Burial
Friends and former associates of Dr. E. W. Mumma, of the Veterinary Department of the Kentucky Experiment Station, who died at Henderson Friday of typhoid fever, met the body yesterday as it passed through Lexington on the 11:45 o'clock Chesapeake & Ohio on its way to his old home, Amelia Courthouse, Va.
The body was accompanied from Henderson by Dr. Mumma's father, who is himself a veterinarian, and Dr. Robert Graham, head of the Veterinary Department of the Experiment Station, and under whom Dr. Mumma was employed. Dr. Graham accompanied the body on to Amelia Courthouse, where it will be buried in the family cemetery.
Dr. Joseph Kastle, head of the Experiment Station of the State University of Kentucky, was among those who met the body at the station.
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AMERICAN Veterinary Review EDITED BY PROF. A. LIAUTARD, M.D., V.M. and Prof. ROBERT W. ELLIS, D.V.S.
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EDWARD WOODYEAR MUMMA, V.M.D.
Dr. Edward Woodyear Mumma died at Henderson, Ken-
tucky, on December 5, 1914, following an attack of typhoid
fever. At the time of his death, Dr. Mumma was temporarily
located at Henderson, Ky., co-operating with the federal veteri-
narians in the eradication of foot and mouth disease. He was
Associate in Animal Pathology, at the Kentucky Agricultural
Experiment Station, at Lexington.
Dr. Mumma was born at Bendersville, Pa., November 10,
1890. His father, Dr. Richard T. Mumma, was a practicing
veterinarian in York County, Pennsylvania, for over a quarter of
a century.
Dr. Mumma graduated from the Veterinary Department of
the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1912. For a short time
following graduation he held a position as bacteriologist in the
Veterinary Department of the H. K. Mulford Company Labora-
tories, at Glenolden, Pa. From there he went to Kentucky.
Dr. Mumma was a member of the American Veterinary Med-
ical Association and the Alpha Psi Fraternity. ? H. P. H.