Samuel Shumack

Samuel Shumack (1850 - 1940) was an early Canberra pioneer and Australian author.

He was born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland and moved to Australia with his family in 1856 where at the age of fifteen and with his father he took up a selection at Weetangera. He farmed his land until it was resumed by the Commonwealth in 1915 to become part of the National Capital. He then moved to Ravensworth in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales where he died in 1940.

He wrote his autobiography in the late 1920s and it was finally published in 1967 as a definitive account of rural living in the Canberra district.

Bibliography

* "Tales and legends of Canberra Pioneers", edited by J.E and Samuel Shumack, ANU Press, Canberra, 1967 ISBN 0-7081-0725-7