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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
Cumming, Alfred
governor, born about 1802. He served as governor of Utah. He died Oct. 9, 1873, in Augusta, Ga.
Cumming, Kate
author, was born in 1835 in Alabama. She is a resident of Mobile, prominent during the civil war as an organizer of field hospitals in the confederate army. She is the author of Hospital Life in Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War.
Cumming, Thomas W
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from New York during 1853-1855.
Cumming, William
congressman.
He was a delegate from North Carolina to the continental congress in 1784.
Cummings, a. B
naval officer, was born June 22, 1830, in Pennsylvania. He was a naval commander in the civil war, who died during the engagement of the batteries at Port Hudson. His self-forgetfulness after falling mortally wounded was nearly equal to that of the noted Sir Philip Sidney. He died March 14, 1863, at Port Hudson.
Cummings, Alexander
governor, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1865 he was appointed governor of the territory of Colorado.
Cummings, Alexander W
journalist. He is the editor and owner of The Derby Game Bird, of Derby, Ind. He has written extensively for the periodical press, and is a well-known bird fancier and poulterer.
Cummings, Alfred
soldier, was born Jan. 30, 1829, in Augusta, Ga. He was on the Utah expedition of 1859- 60; and in 1861 resigned and was soon commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the confederate army. He rose to the rank of brigadier-general, and served until disabled by wounds received at the battle of Jonesboro, Ga., Aug. 31, 1864.
Cummings, Amos J
soldier, journalist, congressman, author, was born May 15, 1841, in Conklin, N. Y. He was sergeant-major in the twenty-sixth New Jersey regiment of infantry, secondbrigade, second division, sixth corps, army of the Potomac; and received the congressional medal of honor for gallantry on the battlefield. He was editor of the Evening Sun when elected to the fiftieth congress. He declined a renomination, preferring to give his whole attention to editorial work. He was elected to the fifty-first congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Sullivan Cox; and was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. He is the author of Horace Greeley Campaign Songster; Sayings of Uncle Rufus; and Ziska Letters.
Cumming, Gilbert W
lawyer, was born in 1817 in Delaware county, N. Y.
He removed, in 1853, to Janesville, Wis., and in 1858 to Chicago. In September, 1861, he raised the fifty-first Illinois regiment, and was appointed its colonel.
Cummings, Asa
clergyman, journalist, was born Sept. 29, 1791, in Andover, Mass. He attended Phillips academy of Andover, and graduated from Bowdoin college. He was a clergyman for six years, when he became editor of the Christian Mirror, and for thirty years was its editor. He died at sea June 5, 1856.
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.
Cummings, Ephraim
clergyman, author, was born in 1825 in Albany, N. Y. He served as chaplain in a Vermont regiment more than a year during the war. In 1872 and 1873 he was provisional professor of mental and moral philosophy in the college. He has published a volume, Birth and Baptism.
Cummings, George J
educator, was born July 6, 1838, in Groton, N. H. He was fitted for college at the Kimball Union academy, and graduated from Dartmouth college in 1869. He has been associate teacher in the Kimball Union pal of the same institution for five years, academy for six years, and then princiresigning in 1880 to accept a similar position in the Monson academy. In 1885 he accepted the professorship of ancient languages, and the deanship of the preparatory department of the Howard university of Washington, D. C., which position he still fills.
Cummings, Henry J. B
soldier, journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born May 21, 1831, in Newton, N. J. He served with distinction through the civil war; was captain of the fourth regiment, Iowa volunteer infantry, in 1861-62; and colonel of the thirty-ninth regiment during 1862- 65. He was twice solicitor of Winterset, Iowa; twice served as its mayor; and was twice county attorney of Madison county, Iowa. Since 1869 he has been the editor and proprietor of The Winterset Madisonian. He served with distinction as a member of the forty-fifth congress from the Des Moines district.
Cummings, Jeremiah W. D
clergyman, author, poet, was born April 5, 1823, in Washington, D. C. He was a popular Roman catholic clergyman of New York city; and the author of Italian Legends; Songs for Catholic Schools; Spiritual Progress; and The Silver Stole.
He died Jan. 4, 1866, in New York.
Cummings, John
tanner, was born Feb. 26, 1785, in Woburn, Mass. He probably taught more young men the business of tanning, aiding them to establish themselves, than any other leather manufacturer in Massachusetts. He died June 8, 1867, in Woburn, Mass.
Cummings, Joseph
educator, theologian, was born March 3, 1817, in Falmouth county, Maine. He was professor of theology in the Methodist general biblical institute in Concord, N. H.
Cummings, Joseph Franklin
soldier, educator, was born July 16, 1851, in Brownsville, Texas. In 1876 he graduated from the United States Military academy of West Point, N. Y.; and during 1876- 83 was an officer in the United States cavalry. In 1883-86 he was railroading in Mexico; in 1886-88 was a teacher in the public school at Galveston, Texas; and since that time has been superintendent of public schools in Brownsville. In 1887 he received the thanks of Gen. George Crook in a general order for the capture of an Indian village.
Cummings, Justelle
poet, was born Dec. 19, 1848, in Falmouth, Maine.
She is the author of Faithe, a Story of Falmouth, in verse; and has contributed extensively to current literature. She is the widow of the late Isaac I. Cummings, a noted physician of Falmouth, Maine.
Cummings, Marcus Fayette
architect, author, was born March 11, 1836, in Utica, N. Y. For thirty years he was a successful architect in the city of Troy, N. Y. He is the author of Cummings' Architectural Details; Sanctum Shots; and associate author of Architecture, and Modern Architecture. He is now associate editor of Martha's Vineyard Herald, of Vineyard Haven, Mass.
Cummings, Moses
clergyman, journalist, was born about 1816 in Haverhill, Mass. From 1854 to 1862 he had editorial control of The Christian Messenger and The Palladium, the central organs of the sect of which he was a member. He died Jan. 6, 1867, in New York city.
Cummings, Thomas Seir
artist, author, was born in 1804 in England. He was a New York artist who was author of the Historic Annals of the National Academy from its Foundation to 1865. He died in 1894.
Cummins, Francis
educator, clergyman, was born in 1732 near Shippensburg, Pa. He filled the office of pastor to twenty parishes in different localities in Georgia and the Carolinas. In 1778 he was a member of the South Carolina convention held to decide upon the constitution of the United States, and voted for its adoption. He died Feb. 22, 1832, in Greensborough, Ga.
Cummins, George David
bishop, was born Dec. 11, 1822, in Smyrna. While rector of Trinity church of Chicago, he was consecrated assistant bishop of Kentucky in 1866. In 1873 he resigned his office in the episcopal church, and became a member of what is known as the Reformed Episcopal church. His low church views were decided, and he took occasion to censure the ritualistic tendency and proceedings of some of the churches in the see of Kentucky. He died June 26, 1876, in Baltimore county, Md.
Cummins, Hester V
educator, poet, was born April 6, 1862, in Crane's Grove, Ill. She has attained success in educational work in primary and kindergarten teaching in Minnesota. She is the author of two volumes of poems, and has contributed extensively to current literature.