Notes:
The birth date appears as 1854 in as many documents as it appears 1852. On the tombstone it is 1852- we choose this date.
Eber Leslie was a practicing Attorney. He had a farm also. He started in the teaching profession in Vanlue, Benton Ridge and Hancock County and rose to "Director of Schools". In 1909 he was elected Mayor of the town of McComb,OH and served for many years. He was a sought-after orator in his day.
Data source is Jane Weidman, 6009 Queenston, Springfield VA 22152
The following biography is found in the "History of Hancock Co., OH, p. 320". It contains many errors
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"E. Leslie E. Mumma, attorney at law at McComb, is a prominent member of the Hancock County bar and for forty years has been a political factor in the Republican party in the State of Ohio. He was born in Monroe Township, Allen County, O., April 8, 1854, and a son of Peter K. and Susan (Montz) Mumma.
"Peter K. Mumma was born in Lancaster County, Pa., July 10, 1810 and was of Swiss and French ancestry. His father, Peter Mumma came to America from Alsace Lorraine, then a French province, following the close of the war of 1812. He lived in Lancaster and Susquehanna Counties, in Pennsylvania, and owned a distillery on the Susquehanna River." He died in 1839. His widow, also a native of France, died in 1866. They had the following children: John, Peter K., Eliza, David R., Joseph H., and Mary A. John Mumma was an engineer on the first line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. David R. Mumma became a man of much prominence in Pennsylvania and was sent to the State Senate from Dauphin County. He died in Harrisburg." Joseph H. Mumma came to Ohio in 1860 and lived in Hancock County during the remainder of his life until prior to his death, in 1908, which occurred in Paulding County. He was a miller by trade. Mary A. the sixth member of the family and the only survivor, resides on a farm near Payne, O., and is now in her seventy seventh year. She married Samuel Wiltsie, who was born in 1827 in Otsego County N.Y.
"Peter K. Mumma was not a collegian but he was a scholarly and educated man, reading Latin, Greek and French, also German and being particularly proficient in his ancestoral tongue and easily conversed in the dialects of his land.
"In 1838 Peter K. Mumma was married in Lancaster County Pa.," to Susan Montz, who was born in 1822, in Maryland. Her father was Joshua Montz, a native of France and an emigrant to Maryland.---In 1840 they came to Allen County, O., locating on Riley Creek, a mile and a half from Blufton, where he built a log cabin. In 1859 he removed to Orange Township, -in Hancock County, not far from Blufton.
"To Peter K Mumma and wife the following children were born: William J., Susan 0., Joseph M., Zachariah Taylor, E. Leslie E., Simon G., Isaac N., Martha L., Mary E. and Roy Edmond. William J Mumma was a member of Co. B, 99th Ohio Vol. Inf. He married Mary H. Reeber, of Hancock County, engaged in farming near Warsaw Indiana. Susan O. is the widow of James C. Bogart. Joseph M. follows the carpenter trade in Blufton 0., he married Euphemia Hamiltona daughter of Jonathan Hamilton. Zachariah Taylor, who is engaged in the mercantile business at Blufton, O. married Amanda Hamilton. Simon G. Mumma has his home in Jamestown N.D. Isaac N. Mumma is a farmer and Plasterer, residing in Auglaiz County Ohio. He married Elizabeth Johnson of Hancock County. Martha L.is the wife of Joseph Bowen of Warsaw Indiana. Mary E. died unmarried in Tecumseh, Neb. Roy Edmund is engaged in the mercantile business in Paulding Co., OH. He married Bertha Miller.
"On October 22, 1876, Mr. Mumma was married to Miss Sarah A. Waltz of Tuscarawas Co., OH and they have three children: Morton C., Cliffe, Hiram Paul and Harlin Leslie."