12 Facts About Jacob Stumm

Jacob Stumm was a Ministerialist member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the seat of Gympie from 1896 to 1899 and a Commonwealth Liberal Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for Lilley from 1913 to 1917.

Jacob Stumm moved to Gympie at the age of 15 and lived there for the rest of his life, with the exception of a few years at Maryborough.

Jacob Stumm was a member of the Ambulance Brigade Committee, Fire Brigade Board and Gympie Turf Club Committee and the School of Arts and Technical College Committee.

Jacob Stumm used his newspaper to campaign against the sitting member for Gympie, Andrew Fisher, accusing Fisher of being a dangerous revolutionary and an anti-Catholic.

Jacob Stumm ran against Fisher for his Gympie seat as in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland at the 1896 colonial election, contesting as a Ministerialist, and won.

Jacob Stumm returned to his business interests after his retirement from state politics.

Jacob Stumm was involved in the formation of the Wide Bay Dairy Co-Operative Ltd in 1906 and served on its board of directors, later serving several years as chairman.

Jacob Stumm was an unsuccessful candidate for Wide Bay at the 1910 federal election.

Jacob Stumm encountered substantial prejudice during World War I as a consequence of his German birth, and he spoke out publicly in 1917 about the "humiliating treatment" he had received.

Jacob Stumm subsequently retired from parliament at the 1917 election, having had to be talked out of resigning and causing a by-election earlier that year.

Jacob Stumm died in 1921 in the Gympie Hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage in The Gympie Times' office the previous day.

Jacob Stumm married Margaret Pride in 1878, and they had five sons and four daughters.