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CUMINGS, E. Wilmot

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 160

E. Wilmot CUMINGS, Barre [Washington County, Vermont], job printer, was born 
08 November 1847 at Palmyra [Wayne County], New York, son of Horace and Lucy 
Gibson (THOMPSON) CUMINGS. Educated at Palmyra Union School; Hamilton 
College, A. B., 1871; Union Theological Seminary, class of 1874. 
Presbyterian; served as pastor Fairville [Wayne County], New York, one year; 
West Fayette [Seneca County], New York, four and a half years; Elba [Genesee 
County], New York, seven and a half years; Barre, seven years. Purchased job 
printing business of W. A. SMITH in 1896, continuing same to date. 
Republican; school commissioner, Barre, four years; cemetery commissioner, 
six years; assessor two years; city liquor agent four years. In 1874 he [E. 
Wilmot CUMINGS] married [Miss?] Annie M. SMITH, of Greenport, Long Island 
[Suffolk County, New York]; they have three daughters: Lucy Frances (Mrs. J. 
L. THORPE), Susan Ellsworth (Mrs. R. E. WALES), and Metta Belle (Mrs. William 
COLE).

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