Henry Cook Mumbrue (February 15, 1828 – April 8, 1898) was an American steamboat operator, businessman, and Wisconsin pioneer.
He was at one point the richest resident of Waupaca County, but his riverboat business was wiped out when train lines arrived in the region.
[4] The Assembly had been redistricted, and he was succeeded in portions of his old district by Asa L. Baldwin and Hannibal Dixon, both Republicans.
In 1884, when J. H. Woodnorth (Mumbrue's former partner in dry goods) was appointed register of the United States Land Office at Menasha, Wisconsin, Mumbrue was appointed Woodnorth's deputy, and served four years.
He was confirmed in 1893 (under Democratic President Grover Cleveland, newly returned to office) as postmaster in Waupaca[5] and as of 1896 was in office at a salary of $1,600 per annum.,[6] but was replaced after the 1896 presidential election brought McKinley supporters into power by Adelbert Penney, who had bought Mumbrue's old house on Main Street in 1890.