Notes:
An Ellis Lewis Mumma appears on the Ellis Island records of arriving in 1907 & 1908 (ages 35 & 40?). There is also a Benjamin Meyers Mumma on the 1907 boat.
1920: Manhattan Assembly District 23, New York, New York
Benjamin W Mumma 35
Marguerita Mumma 30
Elles L Mumma 65, father
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BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DAUPHIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
CONTAINING
Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and Many of the Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers
ILLUSTRATED
1896
Chambersburg, PA
J.M. RUNK & COMPANY
Publishers
MUMMA. ELLIS LEWIS, is the youngest child of the late Hon. David Mumma and was born in Harrisburg in 1854. During his early childhood he attended the Harrisburg Academy, then, as now, conducted by Prof. Jacob Seiler. At sixteen he was sent to Bryant and Stratton's Business College, in Philadelphia; completing he course he returned to Harrisburg where, at the age of seventeen, he was given a clerkship in the State Bank. One year later he entered the Real Estate Savings Bank. So thoroughly conversant did the young man become with the business that at the death of the cashier, Mr. Landis, he was, at the early age of twenty-two years, made cashier of the bank. There was thrilling experience ahead for the young man on account of the financial panic of 1877, which was then impending. As it was impossible, with banks failing all around, to make money, the directors concluded to close out the concern, the young cashier running affairs so smoothly that each depositor was paid to the last cent, in spite of the stringency of the times. Until May, 1883, Mr. Mumma was manager of the Harrisburg Daily Patriot, when he was appointed draughtsman in the department of Internal Affairs, by Secretary J. Simpson Africa. At the expiration of Mr. Africa's term Mr. Mumma was again connected with the Patriot, at the same time dealing in real estate business. During October, 1893, he became publisher of the Morning Call, which built up a wide circulation through the publisher's philanthropic spirit. During the business depression of 1893 and 1894 Mr. Mumma appealed through the columns of his journal to the public-spirited and charitably inclined and through these means fed hundreds of starving people through that disastrous time. Mr. Mumma is married to a daughter of Hon. B.F. Meyers and has two interesting children, Winifred and Benjamin Meyers Mumma.
He is living with his son and daughter-in-law in Manhatten, NY in the 1920 census.
Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Patriot, Friday, January 20, 1922:
Funeral services for Ellis L. Mumma, former newspaper publisher of this city, who died Wednesday in New York, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, with the Rev. Rollin Alger Sawyer, officiating. Mr. Mumma was a former publisher of the old "Morning Call," which went out of existence many years ago, and a son of the late David Mumma, former member of the Dauphin County Bar.
He was a son-in-law of the late Benjamin F. Meyers, former publisher of the old "Star-Independent," and devoted most of his time to his orange grove interests in Alabama, and gold mining interests in Mexico. He is survived by one son, Benjamin Mumma, of New York, and by one sister, Mrs. Sue Major, of Elizabethtown. He was a member of the Elks Lodge, of Harrisburg.
