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Data source is John Hess Calaman. email john.calaman@gmail.com
John Alton Mucher - born 15 Mar 1910 to Harrison Norman Mucher and Ella Jane Mumma, who divorced about 1911. John was then adopted as John Alton Calaman by Ella's maternal aunt and her husband, Maud Brightbill Mumma and William H. Calaman. Ella Jane later remarried with John Isaac Biesel, while Harrison remained a bachelor. John Alton sometimes quipped that he had been an only child to five parents. Tracing John Alton's ancestry can be a bit confusing since his Mumma adoptive (legal) grandparents are also his biological great-grandparents, adoptive great-grandparents his biological great-great-grandparents, etc.
1910:Harrisburg Ward 9, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, 26 N. 18th Street
Ellen J Mumma, head, 52, widow, 3 children, 3 living, b: PA/PA/PA
John J Mumma, dau, 21, single, b: PA/PA/PA, wagon driver, piano
Ella J Mumma, dau, 16, single, b: PA/PA/PA, none
Harrison N Mucher, boarder, 21, clerk steel works
Edward F Kitzmiller, boarder, 21, house painter
1910:Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Caroline Mumma, head, 74, widowed, 7 children, 4 living, b: PA
Maud B Calman, dau, 28, m: 9 yrs, 0 children, b: PA
William H Calman, son-in-law, 34, m: 9 yrs, b: PA
1920: Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
W H Calamen, head, 44
Maude B Calamen, wife, 38
John A Calamen, son, 9 (adopted)
Lilian Stober, maid, 63
1930:East Pennsboro, Cumberland, Pennsylvania
John A Calaman, head, 20, accountant, electric power co
Maude B Calaman, mother, 48, widowed
1940:Manchester, York Co., Pennsylvania
1935, west Fairview, Cumberland Co., PA
John A Callaman, head, 30, single, b: PA supervisor state charity
Maud B Callaman, mother, 58, widowed, b: PA
John was a newspaper reporter and photographer. In the mid 1950's he and his wife owned and published the West Shore Times, a weekly newspaper in Lemoyne, PA. At the time of John's death, he was a night editor at the York dispatch in York, PA. He was a charter member of the York County Planning Commission. He was a graduate of the Dunmire School of Music in Harrisburg, PA.