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Cumback, Will

educator, lawyer, congressman, poet, was born March 24, 1829, in Franklin county, Ind. He taught school for one or two years; attended the law school at Cincinnati, and adopted the legal profession; and was elected a representative from Indiana in the thirty-fourth congress. He was a presidential elector in 1861; and during that year was appointed an additional paymaster in the army. In 1868 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Indiana. He is also a successful lecturer and the author of a number of meritorious poems.

CUMMER, WELLINGTON WILLSON, lumberman, was born Oct. 21, 1846, in Canada. Among his investments are two lumber companies which are operating a large acreage of pine and cypress lands in Louisiana and Florida, and the Electric Light and Water company of Cadillac, Mich. He has been mayor of Cadillac, Mich.; a republican presidential elector in 1888; and a member of the school board for ten years. was

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