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Cummings, Ebenezer Edson

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 9, 1800, in Claremont, N. H. He was president of the board of trustees of the New London institution from its beginning, and for some time a trustee of Colby university. He published several sermons, and left in manuscript The Baptist Ministry of New Hampshire for the First Century of our History. He died Feb. 22, 1886, in Concord.

CUMMINGS, EBENEZER HARLOW, clergyman, jurist, author, was born in 1790 in North Carolina. He was a clergyman and magistrate of Baltimore; and the author of Geography of Alabama; and History of the Late War (1820). He died Jan. 17, 1835, in Washington, D. C.

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