The following link is to a letter written to Daniel Gehr Mumma while he served in the Customs House in Baltimore, MD.
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NOTE: Daniel is listed in the cemetery records as David G. Mumma.
From the research of Glen & Patti Swan, Daniel was the mayor of Hagerstown from 1858-1859.
1850 Census, MD, Washington Co., Hagers-Town, Dist #1, 16 July 1850, p. 144
A.G. Mumma, 29, constable, $800 personal, b: MD
Adeline " , 18, b: MD
Mary " , 6/12, b: MD
1860 Census, MD, Washington Co., Hagerstown, 5 June 1860, - property listed as a HOTEL
Daniel Mumma, 39, Hotel Keeper, $700 real estate, $800 personal, b: MD
Adaline " , 30, b: MD
Eliza " , 7, b: MD
Albert Stanley ", 4, b: MD
Ada R. " , 1, b: MD
William Norris, 40, tailor, b: MD
Jerome Burk, 21, clerk, b: PA
John Dillahunt, 65, $12,000 personal, b: MD
William Herring, 45, shoemaker, b: England
Kesiah Eakle, 19, female, servant, b: MD
Ann A. Nilsen, 27, female, servant, b: MD
Geo. Hagletine, 46, bar keeper, b: MD
1870 Census MD, Baltimore City, Fifth Ward, 18 July 1870, p. 194, dwelling 967
Mumma, Daniel, 49, inspector of customs, $2500 real estate, $250 personal, b: MD
" , Margaret, 40, keeping house, b: MD
" , Eliza, 19, at home, b: MD
" , Albert S., 16, at school, b: MD
" , Ida K, 12, at school, b: MD
1880 Census MD, Washington Co., 145th Enumeration District, 2 June 1880
Mumma, Daniel, 59, farmer, b: MD/MD/MD
" , Margaret, 50, wife, keeping house, b: PA/-/-
" , Eliza, 28, dau, unemployed, b: MD/MD/MD
" , Ida K., 21, dau, unemployed, b: MD/MD/MD
Flenner, Albert, 21, nephew, farm laborer, b: PA/PA/PA
[Note: This is believed to be the same Daniel Mumma as mentioned in this article]
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The Mail - Hagerstown, Maryland - Friday, July 26, 1872
Terrible Accident - WAGONER
On Saturday morning last, Upton WAGONER of this town met with an accident by which he was terribly injured. He was engaged, in connection with several other laborers, in digging a well on the farm of Daniel MUMMA near the College of St James and was at work upon its bottom, a distance of fifty feet from the top, when one of his fellow workmen undertook to lower to him a drill, weighing about fifteen pounds, by attaching it to a rope. Unfortunately, it broke away from the rope and fell to the bottom, the sharp point striking Wagoner below the back bone, making a fearful and dangerous wound of some four or five inches. Before he was brought to this town, the wound was dressed by Dr. GRIMES, and since he has been home, he has been attended by Dr. BOYLE who is doing all for his relief that can be done, but he is regarded as being in a very critical condition - (Herald)
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Hagerstown (MD) Herald and Torch Light, June 28, 1888:
The Death Roll --- One of the most startling deaths, by reason of its suddenness, in this community for a long time, was that of Mr. Daniel G. Mumma, which occurred shortly after five o'clock Monday afternoon in the law office of Mr. H. H. Keedy. Mr. Mumma had just begun testifying in a suit for rent, in which he was plaintiff, before Justice Mitchell, when his head dropped. Mr. Cyrus Simmons, his counsel, caught him to prevent his falling from his chair; but before a physician could be summoned or any effort made to relieve him, he was dead. It is singular that this was the first trial in which Dr. Mitchell sat as magistrate, his appointment only dating from the last session of the legislature. Mr. Mumma did not appear at all excited; before the trial began he conversed quietly with the defendant and others in the office and began testifying in a calm, deliberate manner. His death was attributed to heart disease. As soon as arrangements could be made for the transfer of the body, it was taken to his late home on the corner of West Washington and Foundry streets.
Mr. Mumma was widely known, has a large circle of relatives in this county and was about sixty-eight years of age. He served a number of terms as mayor of Hagerstown in the fifties, and about 1859 was proprietor of the old Eagle hotel in the Public Square. For eleven years he filled a position in the Custom House at Baltimore to which he was appointed under Mr. Lincoln's administration. After the expiration of his term of office he purchased and removed to a farm four miles south of Hagerstown. He lived there several years and then came to Hagerstown where he has since resided. Mr. Mumma was an ardent Republican and always exhibited great interest in political affairs and a strong desire for the success of his party's ticket. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran church, of Potomac Lodge, No. 31, I.O.O.F., and of the Independent Junior Fire Company of this city. Of his immediate family, his second wife, one son Albert, and two daughters, Eliza and Mrs. Scott Royer, of Columbus, Ohio, survive him. He has three brothers and one sister living---Jacob, Abraham, John and Mrs. Catharine Albert. A number of more distant relatives live in the Sharpsburg and Boonsboro districts.
The funeral occurred yesterday afternoon at four o'clock. Services were held in St. John's Lutheran church and he was buried in Rose Hill Cemeter