BIO: Charles GUMMO, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.  295

  CHARLES GUMMO is numbered among the leading and enterprising farmers 
of Patton township, Centre county, and is also a stone mason by trade. 
He comes from "over the sea," his birth having occurred in Wittenberg, 
Germany, March 24, 1827, and is a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Behrer) 
Gummo, both now deceased, the former dying in 1830, and the latter in 
1888. They were the parents of four children, the others being 
Madaline, wife of B. Rusking; Caroline, who married, and reared a 
family; and John, who married, and spent his entire life in the 
Fatherland.
  In the land of his nativity Charles Gummo was reared and educated, 
and in 1852 he married Frederica Bardt. In the following year he sailed 
with his wife for America, landing in New York May 19, 1853. He was the 
only one of his family who ever sought a home in the New World, but 
here he has prospered, and is the owner of a good farm of forty acres 
in Patton township, Centre Co., Penn., which is under a high state of 
cultivation and well improved with good and substantial buildings. 
Before coming to this country he had served for four years in the 
German army, was therefore well drilled and disciplined, and during the 
dark days of our Civil war, enlisted in the Union army September 14, 
1864. On the battle field he was a brave and fearless soldier, and for 
meritorious conduct was promoted to lieutenant in the spring of 1865. 
Among the important engagements in which he participated was the battle 
of Stony Creek. When the war was over and his services were no longer 
needed he was honorable discharged June 7, 1865, and returned home.
  Thirteen children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gummo, namely: 
Charles F., who is married, and living in Wisconsin; Frederick, who is 
married, and is a farmer of Pine Grove Mills, Centre county; Elizabeth, 
wife of Samuel Dunlap, also of Pine Grove Mills; Andrew, married, and 
engaged in farming in Patton township, Centre county; George, married, 
and also a farmer of the township; William, a resident of Wisconsin; 
John, who is married and is an agriculturist of Pine Grove Mills; Emma, 
wife of Edward Louck, a farmer of Ferguson township, Centre county; 
David, who is married and is fireman in a sawmill in Patton township; 
Katharine, now a resident of California; Minnie, at home; and two 
children who died in early childhood.
  Since casting his first vote in 1860, Mr. Gummo has been a stalwart 
Democrat in politics. Socially he is connected with the Grange, while 
in religion he is a member of the United Brethren Church. That he is 
true and loyal to the interests of his adopted country was manifest by 
his service in the Civil war, and for injuries sustained in that 
struggle he now receives a pension of $12 per month.