Cummins, Holmes – Curry, James L
Cummins, Holmes
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 7, 1844, in Tipton county, Tenn. He served during the war in the confederate states army; was adjutant of the ninth Tennessee regiment, and adjutant of the brigade confederate states army. During 1872-76 he served as a representative in the Tennessee state legislature. For several years he was editor and owner of the Tipton Record of Covington, Tenn. He attained success as an able lawyer, and was the general counsel of the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern railroad, and of the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas railroad. He served as vice-president of the Memphis, Arkansas and Texas railroad; and as president of the Memphis, Paducah and Northern railroad. He always took an active part in public affairs; in 1878 he was chairman of the democratic state convention of Tennessee, and in 1892-96 was national democratic committeeman for Tennessee.
Cummins, John
jurist, was born in Indiana. He was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for Idaho territory, residing at Boise City.
Cummins, John D
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative from Ohio during the thir- He died Sept. 11, 1848, tieth congress. in Milwaukee, Wis.
Cummins, Maria Susanna
author, was born April 10, 1827, in Salem, Mass.
She was a famous novelist of Massachusetts, whose first book, The Lamplighter, enjoyed for a time a phenomenal popu- Her subsequent stories include larity.
El Fureidîs, a Tale of Palestine; Haunted Hearts; and Mabel Vaughan. She died Oct. 1, 1866, in Dorchester, Mass.
Cummins, Mary Stuart
educator, philanthropist, was born May 31, 1854, in Jonesborough, Tenn. For four years she was state president for Montana of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, and is a member of the state board of charities and reforms for Montana. a
Cunard, Ludwell M
soldier, farmer, litterateur, was born Dec. 31, 1834, in Loudon county, Va. He served as a union soldier during the civil war, and mustered out a lieutenant in the thirtyty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He has principally been engaged in agricultural pursuits, but has now retired from active work. He has taken a great interest in the public affairs of his county and state; and resides in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, where for many years he has given his attention to literary work.
Cundell, William
poet, was born in July, 1816, in England. In 1850 he moved to Clinton county, Iowa, which was then quite a wilderness. His poems appear in Poets of America and other standard works..
Cunningham, E. W
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 31, 1842, in Clarksfield, Ohio. He has served as probate judge of Lyon county, Kas.; has many times been a delegate to republican state conventions; has contributed valuable papers to various legal publications; and is prominently identified with the religious affairs of Emporia, Kas.
Cunningham, Francis A
congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1845 to 1847.
Cunningham, John Daniel
lawyer, jurist, was born March 28, 1840, in Oak Bowery, Ala. In 1868 he was appointed judge of a state court of unlimited jurisdiction in Montgomery county, Ala. He became one of the leading fruit planters in Georgia.
Cunningham, William Little- Ton
clergyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 26, 1869, near Mulberry Grove , Ill. He received his education at the Mc- Kendree university of Lebanon, Ill.; the Terre Haute Business college; and the Vandalia School of Stenography. For several years he was an instructor in stenography; has taught school; and was editor of the College Journal. He is a successful clergyman, and fills a pastorate at St. Elmo, Ill. He is the author of a work of fiction, and has contributed extensively to current periodicals.
Curline, J. V
educator, college president, was born Nov. 9, 1847, in Union City, Tenn. He received his education at the Kentucky university of Lexington; and has been a college president for a quarter of a century.
Curme, George Oliver
educator, philologist, author, was born in 1860, in Richmond, Ind. During 1884-96 he was connected with Cornell college of Mount Vernon, Iowa, and now fills the chair of Germanic philology in the Northwestern university of Evanston, Ill. He is the author of a work entitled The Historic Grammar of the German Language, the largest and most extensive work of the kind in America.
Curran, Charles Courtney
artist, was born Feb. 13, 1861, in Hartford, Ky. This noted artist has received has received numerous awards. In 1893 he was awarded a medal at the World's Columbian exposition, and a medal at the Cotton States exposition at Atlanta.
Curren, James E
journalist, was born July 4, 1855, in Dubuque, Iowa. He started in life as a practical printer, and has been the editor and founder of a score of different country newspapers in the west. He is now the editor and owner of The Enterprise, of Clayton, N. M.
Currey, Augustus
poet, was born Dec. 17, 1836, in Detroit, Mich. In 1863 he became connected with the Western Union Telegraph company, and with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad at Chicago, and remained in that city for nearly twenty years. He then returned to Detroit, Mich., where he is manager of the Detroit Car Service association. He has contributed numerous meritorious poems to leading publications, and have also appeared in Poets of America and other standard collections .
He is also the author of a volume of poems entitled The Sower.
Currey, John Thomas
farmer, horticulturist, legislator, financier, was born Oct. 28, 1837, in Harrodsburg, Ky. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, and graduated from the Asbury university of Greencastle, Ind.
He commenced life as a day laborer, and now owns a farm of two thousand acres, fifty acres of which are in orchards. He has served as a member of the Texas state legislature in the house of representatives for four sessions, thus devoting eight years of his time to the management of the state revenues and appropriations, educational and stock interests. He has been president of the Farmers' County Alliance of Van Zandt county, Texas, and has been vice-president of the Dallas state fair.
Currier, Frank Dunklee
legislator, was born Oct. 30, 1853, in Canaan, N. H. He served with distinction in the in the New Hampshire state senate in 1887, and was made president of that body. He still resides in the place of his nativity, and his portrait hangs in the new library building of the state capitol.
Currier, Moody
educator, lawyer, banker, governor, poet, was born April 22, 1806, in Boscawen, N. H. He established the Amoskeag National bank and the Amoskeag Savings bank in Manchester, N. H. He was for several years a member of the city government of Manchester; was twice clerk of the state senate of New Hampshire; and served two terms as a state senator. He was twice a member of the governor's council; was a presidential elector in 1876; and in 1884 was elected governor of New Hampshire for two years from June, 1885.
Curry, Daniel
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 26, 1809, in Peekskill, N. Y.
He was a methodist divine of note; and the author of New York, an Historical Sketch; Life Story of Rev. D. W. Clark; Fragments, Religious and Theological; and Platform Papers. He died Aug. 17, 1887, in New York city.
Curry, George Law
journalist, governor, was born July 2, 1820, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1846 he moved to Oregon, and two years later founded the Oregon Free Press, the first weekly paper on the Pacific coast. In 1849 he was appointed the first secretary of the territory. In 1854 he was appointed governor of Oregon territory, which office he filled until 1859, when the territory was admitted as a state. He died July 28, 1878, in Portland, Ore. con-
Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe
soldier, educator, clergyman, legislator, author, was born June 5, 1825, in Lincoln county, Ga. He attended the academies in Georgia and Alabama, and subsequently received the degree of LL. D. from the university of Georgia; and was a graduate of the Harvard Law school. He served as a representative in the state legislature of Alabama; and was a member of congress during 1857-61. He served as a member of the confederate gress; and during the war was a lieutenant-colonel of a cavalry regiment. He has been president of Howard college, Ala.; professor in Richmond college; and was president of trustees of Richmond college. He has served as a minister plenipotentiary to Spain; and has been trustee and general manager of the John F. Slater fund, and the Peabody Education fund. He is the author of Baptists and Pedobaptists, their Radical Differences in Faith and Practice; Constitutional Government in Spain; Gladstone, a Study; and Southern States of the American Union.
Curry, James L
soldier, lumberman, state senator, was born Dec. 30, 1825, in Enfield, N. Y. He served from 1861 to 1864 in an Ohio regiment, rising to the rank of colonel. He was a Michigan representative from Genesee county in 1869-70, and state senator in 1873-74.