# Jacob John Stumm

Jacob John Stumm (26 AUG 1853 – 23 JAN 1921); child of Carl Stumm; born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; married Margaret Pride; parent of 3 children; died in Gympie, Queensland, Australia.

**Lifespan:** 26 AUG 1853 – 23 JAN 1921

## Parents
- [Carl Stumm](/p/carl-stumm-65065.md) (father)

## Spouses
- [Margaret Pride](/p/margaret-pride-65072.md) — m. 17 APR 1878

## Children
- [Charles William Stumm](/p/charles-william-stumm-50314.md)
- [Ena Dorris Stumm](/p/ena-dorris-stumm-65074.md)
- [Margaret Delphine Stumm](/p/margaret-delphine-stumm-65078.md)

## Timeline
- 26 AUG 1853 — **Born** at Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- FROM 1868 — **Occupation (Articled Clerk)** at Gympie, Queensland, Australia — Articled clerk to E. B. C. Corser at Gympie from 1868, and afterwards a solicitor at Maryborough. He also worked for Walkers' Foundry and for Graham and Gatacre.
- FROM 1880 TO 1913 — **Occupation (Newspaper Proprietor and Editor)** at Gympie, Queensland, Australia — Worked as a Hansard reporter and as a journalist for The Gympie Times, then bought the newspaper in partnership with A. G. Ramsey in 1880 and took on its editorship, remaining editor until 1913. He was also a director of the Wide Bay Co-operative Dairy Company and held a number of mining interests.
- FROM 28 MAR 1896 TO 11 MAR 1899 — **Member for Gympie, Queensland Legislative Assembly** at Gympie, Queensland, Australia — Elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the seat of Gympie at the 1896 colonial election, standing as a Ministerialist and defeating the sitting member Andrew Fisher, later Prime Minister of Australia. He retired after a single term in 1899, citing his business interests and his frustration with what he called the growing tendency to make the Legislative Assembly a mere House of Talk.
- FROM 31 MAY 1913 TO 26 MAR 1917 — **Member for Lilley, Australian House of Representatives** at Queensland, Australia — Elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1913 as the Commonwealth Liberal Party member for the new Queensland seat of Lilley, and re-elected in 1914. He sat later as a Nationalist. During the First World War he met substantial prejudice on account of his German birth and spoke publicly in 1917 of the humiliating treatment he had received; he retired at the 1917 election.
- 1921 — **Buried** at Gympie, Queensland, Australia — Buried in Gympie Cemetery. He died at the Gympie Hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage in The Gympie Times office the previous day.
- 23 JAN 1921 — **Died** at Gympie, Queensland, Australia
- **Education (Toowoomba State School)** at Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia — Educated at Toowoomba State School. Born in Frankfurt, he was brought to Australia by his parents at the age of two and raised in Toowoomba.

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