Ephraim Stump, a retired farmer of Franklin township, Summit county, Ohio, is a native of this township and was born May 28, 1842, being of remote German ancestry, yet still of long-ago American descent, and of the third generation to live in the Buckeye state.
Ephraim Stump was reared on the home farm and agriculture has been the chief industrial pursuit of his life. November 28, 1870, he married Louisa Smith, daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Diehl) Smith, the former of whom was likewise a native of Franklin township, and prominent as a democratic politician and township office-holder. In religion Mr. Smith adhered to the teachings of the German Reformed church, in which faith he died, while his wife, who differed somewhat in religious belief, died in the faith of the Lutheran church. William Smith, father of Daniel, married Rachael Vanderhoff, and was one of the earliest pioneers of Franklin township.
Ephraim Stump, after his marriage, followed farming until 1884, when he retired to his present home of twenty acres at Kimisila, in which village he owns and occupies a modern residence and is living in peace and comfort. The children born to his marriage are:
In politics Mr. Stump is a stanch democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Gen. George B. McClellan, and in religion both he and wife adhere to the German Reformed church, to the support of which they liberally contribute financially. Mr. Stump is also a member of the Maccabees at Clinton, Ohio. The family is well known and respected throughout the county, and certainly Mr. Stump is well deserving of the high esteem in which he is held.
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