Benjamin Gumm

Benjamin Franklin Gumm was the son of Jehu Gumm (1787-1848) and Anna Shoup Gumm (1789-1866)who died in La Salle Co., IL. Benjamin Franklin Gumm married Martha A. Goff in 1860 in Kansas. She died 2 May 1904 in White Oaks, Lincoln Co., NM and is buried there.

Aleph Goff, President, and B. F. Gumm, Secretary, K.C. Kirby, W.W. Wright, George P. Eaves, John W. Wells, Robert W. Wells, Nelson Griswold, L. P. Foster, James Wright and John P. Guttry who were members of the Town Company, laid out Uniontown, Kansas in 1858. The town company purchased twenty acres from John L. Gultry for a town site, and preparations for the building up of a town were made. (History of the State of Kansas, William G. Cutler, Part 17, Uniontown, 1883, A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.)

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  Type	Grantee	Rec	Book	Page	#	Filed	Grantor	Instrument	Description	Doc#
  PATENT	GUMM BENJAMIN F	1	CP	23	5	18831103	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	18830613	MINERAL CERTIFICATE NO 62	188300023
  		1							WHITE OAKS MINING DISTRICT	188300023
  		1							MAP ATTACHED	188300023
  WD	GUMM BENJAMIN F	1	Q	353	4	18960922	BUCKHORN LODE	18880604		189610353
  		1					HARRIS GRACE G			189610353
  		1					HARRIS JOHN W			189610353
  		1					MIQUEL OTERO LODE			189610353
  QCD	GUMM BENJAMIN F	1	X	16	1	19070308	CRARY CATHARINE M	19070130		190710016
  		1					CRARY HARRY C			190710016

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Benjamin Gumm