Notes:
Data source is "The Mumma Family" by Samuel H. Mumma 1962 & Moomaw book 1990
Data source and researchers are Barb & Joe Murphy. E-mail bajemurphy@gmail.com 17 Magnolia Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022
Died at Mulberry & 2nd Streets, Harrisburg, PA, buried in E-2 S.H. 48 of Harrisburg Cemetery
Cemetery records at Harrisburg Cemetery list Jacob H. Mumma (DOD July 19, 1866) and Nancy (Anna) Hershey Mumma (DOD March 11, 1898) on the same burial plot. Nancy (Anna)'s burial record also states widow of Jacob Mumma
Family Bible information: The Bible belonged to David H. Mumma, son of Jacob H. and Nancy (Anna) Hershey Mumma. On the pages recording deaths, it lists "Jacob H. Mumma died July 19, 1866, 54 years 1 month, 11 days Harrisburg Cemetery". It also lists: "? Anna ? Mumma Died March 10, 1899 Age 81 Y, 5 M, 17 D Harrisburg Cemetery" I cannot read the scribble before Anna and the middle initial after Anna. It also lists a death of H. L. Mumma, died June 28, 1877 Age 23 years, who is also on their burial plot at Harrisburg Cemetery. The burial record shows him as Henry L. Mumma, 24 yrs. I assume this is a son.
1850 Census, PA, Dauphin co., Spring Creek District, page 123, 28 Aug 1850
Jacob Muma, 36, M, grain drill maker, PA
Anna, 36, F, PA
Fanny, 8, F, PA
David, 6, M, PA
Jacob, 4, M, PA
Maria, 2, F, PA
Mary A. Weibel, 12, F, PA
A census record from 1870, Dauphin County, PA , Harrisburg Ward 2W Page 142 lists:
Mumma, Anna 53
David 26 (?)
Jacob 23 (?)
Henry 18
Ann 13
Anna 18
An obituary in the Harrisburg Daily Telegraph on Saturday, July 21, 1866, page 2, states "On the 19th inst., Jacob H. Mumma, aged 54 years, 2 months and 11 days. The funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock from his late residence, corner of Mulberry and Second Streets. The relatives and friends are invited to attend, without further notice. (Mt. Joy and Lancaster papers please copy).
Note by Doug Mumma. I recently found the following patent for sale on E-Bay. I believe this might be the correct Jacob H. Mumma, but am uncertain. If you have additional information, please send me a message.
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J. H. MUMMA
Straw-Cutter.
No. Patented Nov. 8 1859
UNITED STATES PATENT On ICE.
JACOB H. MUMMA OF HARRISBURG PENNSYLVANIA
STRAW-CUTTER.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. dated November 8 1859; Reissued March
21 1865 No..
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I JACOB H. MUMMA
of Harrisburg in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania have invented
5 certain new and useful Improvements in Fodder and Straw Cutters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full clear and exact description of the same reference being had to the accompanying drawings
10 making a part of this specification.
The nature of my improvement consists in the employment of feed rollers of such form when arranged and combined with a hawk bill cutter and bar that in chaffing
15 corn stalks they can be split lengthwise by said rollers; and in cutting hay or straw said rollers shall divide it into separate and distinct parcels and more perfectly retain the material to be cut by the revolving
20 knives; in other machines the tendency to drive to the side by the draft of the cut has created a difficulty which my improvement in the rollers obviates.
A second improvement is in the form of 25 the knives viz a hawk bill cutter susceptible of adjustment the point of which enters the material to be cut at the center and is followed by the shear cut of the blade with little power employed; third in the slat movable bed by which the straw &c. is jostled and also fed up to the splitting rollers thus making a partial feed to them.
To enable others skilled in the art to use 35 and construct my machine I would thus describe it.
A is the shaft carrying the hawk bill cutters a a. They- are secured to the shaft by arms b and admit of being adjusted in their relation to the fixed cutter bar C : which is secured at the rear of the head or side plates B B.
The cutters resemble a hawk's bill being angular in form with cutting edges conjoining at the angle thus making a point of the cutter.
The adjustment of the point and ends of
the cutter blade is by means of slotted bars
which can be lengthened or shortened and
50 secured by set screws on the arms (b b). The fixed cutter bar C instead of being straight is slightly waved on its edge to conform with the circles described by the revolution of the cutters the angles by
55 which the cutter bar C is secured to the side plates also conform with the same.
In the head B on the right there is anoblong slot (cl) in which is secured a shaft carrying a pinion (e) and by which the lower roller E is driven by the pinion mesh- 60 ing with the wheel C-. In the head on the left is also a slot and pinion meshing with an additional pinion by which the up-per roller H is moved in concert with the lower one.
The upper roller has fixed bearings but the lower one is suspended by stirrup straps provided with helical springs so as to allow of the advance or retreat of the roller; on the end of shaft. A is a tappet f which car- 70 Ties forward an arm and rod (k) connected
with and employed for closing a set of movable slats (h) which slats on their release of the rod and tappet are thrown open and forward by a suitable spring thus making 75 a slat feed and sifter for dust &c.
The slots in the head B B allow of a change of feed by substituting a pinion with more or less teeth by which the straw &c. may be cut to any desirable length the shafts of the pinions being moved to suit the pinion and afterward secured in the slots by a screw and nut.
By the increase of number of teeth in the shifting pinion the diameter is increased rendering it necessary that the above pro-vision be made for changing their centers from the feed rollers and pinion on the main shaft.
What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-
1. The employment of a hawk bill cutter (a a) constructed and arranged as described in connection with a cutter bar (C) of a straw cutter operating in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.
2. I claim the slat bed (Ii) for the purpose of not only cleaning the material from dirt but also as a feed to the rollers: substantially in the manner and for the purposes set forth.
3. I claim the employment of the ribbed feed rollers for crushing and dividing the sheet of material to be cut when arranged and combined with a hawk bill cutter a a-105 and bar C substantially in the manner set forth.
In testimony I have signed my name be-fore witnesses.
J. H. MUMMA.
Witnesses :
JOHN F. CLARK JNO. H. JOHNSON.
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