Found on page 448 of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - ELKHART TOWNSHIP, name & date of county history not given. All I have are photocopies of 2 pages: 'HENRY STUMP is living upon the farm to which he moved from Michigan, in which State he commenced housekeeping after he was married, December 23, 1866, to Emily A., daughter of Isaac and Barbara Tibbott, the father a native of Ohio, and the mother of Indiana. The farm of Mr. Stump is well improved, with a fine brick residence, good barn and other necessary fittings. He is a native of Seneca County, Ohio, the son of John and Barbara Stump, who came to Indiana in 1856, locating in this township, where they died. They were natives of Pennsylvania. Henry Stump spent his boyhood in Hancock COunty, Ohio, and came to this township in 1857, and taught school that winter. In the spring of 1858, went to California, and in the fall to Oregon; in the spring of 1859, to Klikitat Valley, W. T.; was one of the first four in that valley; he returned to the Willamette Valley, Ore., then went on a prospecting tour to Frazer River, a distance of 800 miles; this venture was a financial failure. Returned to the Willamette Valley late in the fall, where he remained during the winter; in the spring, he went on a prospecting tour with a party of seventy to southeastern Oregon, near the Blue Mountains; here, in Baker County, they discovered the Auburn mines. When ready to return, the company divided into three squads, one company going northwest, were captured by the Indians, and all killed but one. Mr. Stump's party arrived in safety. He returned to the mines the next spring, and worked them that season with ordinary success; spent the following winter in the Willamette Valley, and in the spring, in company with his brother, located within ten miles of the mines with a herd of cattle, where they remained two years, engaged in raising grain and vegetables and caring for their stock, at the end of which time he returned to Elkhart County. Mr. Stump has filled the office Township Assessor seven consecutive years. They have one child -- Minnie M. --living at home." Would anybody happen to know which brother went with Henry to Oregon? A land affidavit I have copies of says David Stump, Daniel Stump, Jesse Stump, all sons of John & Barbara Summers Stump, as well as their sister Anne Stump Kistler and her husband George all went to Oregon to live. Jan T Jan T