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1880 Census Co, Arapahoe Co., single, wool dealer
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JACOB MUMMA, a prominent ranchman of Deer Trail, Arapahoe County, was born February 28, 1842, in Ogle County, Ill., his parents being William and Rebecca (Pope) Mumma. William Mumma was a native of Maryland, and in early life settled on a farm about one hundred miles west of Chicago, on Pine Creek, when there were no railroads in the state. He farmed there for some twenty years, and then moved to Grand Detour, Ogle County, where he kept a grocery store and livery stable. From there he moved to Boone, Iowa, in 1864, and engaged in business for a short time with his son, Jacob, but soon returned to Ogle County, Ill., where he spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1872. He was an old-line Whig, and in later years a Democrat. His wife, Rebecca (Pope) Mumma, was a native of Maryland, but died when our subject was a small lad, consequently but little is known of her family. There were ten children, as follows: Joseph lives in Illinois; William and Henry died young; John is janitor of the eastern Denver high school; Rose married Thomas Brooks, a farmer of Ogle County, Ill.; Nancy is the wife of George Palmer, of the same place; Lizzie and Mandy are deceased; and a child who died in infancy, besides the subject of this biography.
Jacob Mumma passed his youth in Grand Detour, Ill., receiving his education in the public schools of that place. At the age of nineteen he began work as a brakeman on the Illinois Central Railroad, and after some time spent in that line was promoted to he a conductor on the same road. He remained there until 1865, when he quit railroading, and opened a livery business with his father in Boone, Iowa, where he continued until 1867, when he disposed of his business. Until 1871 he worked for Henry Stepp and in settling up his own affairs, and in the spring of that year went to Abilene, Kan., and finally to Kansas City, where he was employed in the fruit store of Whitaker & Holmes. That fall he was sent by his employers to Denver with five cars of fruit. After executing his commission he severed his connection with the firm, and the following March entered the fruit store of Pooler & Chittenden, of Denver. He next began working in a furniture store. There he remained until 1876, when he took a partner, K B. Stires, and with him began raising sheep, first at Collins, and after the first year four miles east of Byers. About four years were spent here when he bought out his partner and spent the next year on the Muddy, in the same business, when he moved to Pinneo on the Burlington & Missouri Railroad. Losing his wife, he rented his sheep on shares for one year, and during that time sold furniture for the Hax-Gartner Furniture Company. At the end of the year he selected a good sheep ranch located on his present ranch, which is two and one-half miles southeast of Deer Trail, on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Here for the past eleven or twelve years he has been engaged in raising sheep, and making it a source of considerable profit. He also handles horses. He has improved the place since taking it, putting up windmills, barns, house and other buildings, making it a home to be much desired.
In 1882 he married Miss Minnie Gildersleeve, who died after two short years of married life. He then married Delia Pooler in 1890, a native of Susquehanna, Pa. She is a daughter of Hiram Pooler, a descendant of one of the oldest families of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Mumma has always been a Democrat, but has never aspired to office, as his time was fully occupied in looking after his private interests, and his only capital when he started out was his two hands and a determination to succeed.
1880: Arapahoe, Colorado, USA
J. Mumma 38, single, b: IL/MD/MD. wool grower
1900: Deer Trail, Arapahoe, Colorado
Jacob O Mumma, head, 42, b: IL/MD/MD
Delia Mumma, wife, 45, m: 10 yrs, b: PA/PA/PA,
Tom Robinson, employee, 25, single, ranch hand, b: NC/NC/NC
Thomas Norman, employee, 25, single, ranch ha, b: NC/NC/NCnd
Jessie George, employee, 22, single, sheep herder, b: NC/NC/NC
Aurthur Ray, employee, 22, single, sheep herder, b: NC/NC/NC
Pre-California death index
Jacob Mumma, 2 June 1902, 60 yrs old,, b: IL Los Angeles Co.