Henry Mumbrue

Henry Cook Mumbrue, also known as Harry C. Mumbrue, and H. C. Mumbrue (February 15, 1828 - April 1898) was an American steamboat operator, businessman and farmer from Waupaca, Wisconsin who served one term each in the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate from 1876 to 1878, representing Waupaca County.

Mumbrue was born in the village of Tyre, New York on February 15, 1828; he was educated at the Falley Seminary in Fulton, New York. He became a cabinet and chair maker by trade. He came to Wisconsin with his family in 1849, and settled at Winneconne where in 1850 he opened a horse-powered chair factory. He engaged in steamboating for several years on Lake Winnebago and the Fox and Wolf rivers. Mumbrue came to Waupaca County in the 1850s, one of several Mumbrues who settled in the area, and took up farming. In late 1872 he bought an established drug store in the city. Mumbrue continued throughout his subsequent career to explore various forms of business: grist mills, lumber mills, (buying and selling), as well as dry goods and general merchandise. is associated with various firm, including Mumbrue and Dayton; Mumbrue, Baldwin and Co.; Mumbrue and Rosche; Mumbrue and Oertel; and Mumbrue and Woodnorth (a dry goods store in the 1870s). In approximately 1873-1874 he had a house built in the then-popular Second Empire style, but sold in 1878. That two-story house, with a mansard roof, is still standing at 404 S. Main Street in Waupaca.

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