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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 626]

    MOSES MUMMERT - This highly respected member of the County Board of
    Supervisors was born in York County, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1854,
    and is a son of JONAS and ELIZABETH (STUMMEL) MUMMERT, also natives
    of Pennsylvania, and early settlers in that State.  The father died
    in 1876, but his widow survives him at the age of sixty-four years,
    and now resides on the old homestead at Astoria, Illinois.  Their
    family consisted of thirteen children, three of whom died in infancy.
    their names are: JOHN, GEORGE, CORNELIUS, JOHNAS, CONRAD, MOSES,
    ANDREW, POLLY, ELIZABETH, BARBARA, SEVILLA, AMANDA, and one infant
    that died unnamed.  Of these, two besides MOSES reside in Cherokee
    County, JONAS in Afton Township, and CONRAD in Spring Township.  The
    other members of the family are residing in Illinois.  JONAS MUMMERT,
    Sr., settled in Fulton County, Illinois, in 1866, buying a farm near
    Astoria, on which his widow resides.  MOSES remained at home until his
    twenty-first year, when his father died, after which he worked by
    the month, but turned his wages over to the family fund.  In 1875,
    in company with his brother CONRAD, he came to Iowa and rented land
    of W. H. SCRIPP, a banker of Astoria, and an old friend of the family
    and a careful business man.  He owned all of section 36, Afton Town-
    ship, and to this the brothers came and began farming.  After carrying
    on the busines in partnership for two years, they decided to separate,
    and each took a half section.  Mr. MUMMERT has made excellent improve-
    ments, and his farming operations are quite extensive.  He keeps about
    100 head of cattle, and an equal number of hogs.  He handles the
    improved grades of stock, though he has no fancy breeds.  In addition
    to managing the land of Mr. SCRIPP,  Mr. MUMMERT has secured a fine
    farm of his own.  It contains 440 acres, lying in Spring Township and
    Buena Vista County.  He also looks after Mr. SCRIPP'S interests in
    Woodbury County, makes all collections, attends to the rental of the
    lands, and makes loans on security in his neighborhood.  No man in
    Cherokee County stands higher in the estimation of his friends than
    Mr. MUMMERT.  He has filled acceptably the office of justice of the
    peace in his township, and in 1887 was chosen by a handsome majority
    as a member of the County Board of Supervisors, and his actions as
    such member has increased his large circle of friends.  His political
    principles are Democratic, though he has hosts of friends in the
    opposite party.  Mr. MUMMERT was united in marriage, February 4, 1880,
    to Miss CAROLINE MARY ALLIE McFARLANE, a daughter of JOHN and LUCY
    (WARD) McFARLANE.  She was born in Peel County, Canada, March 11, 1860.
    They are the parents of four bright children: ELIZABETH, MINNIE,
    BLANCHE and WILLIAM HENRY.

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