CUMMINGS, James

CUMMINGS, DUNN

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Date: 10/3/2001 at 17:11:52

Biographical Sketches Of Washington Twp. beginning on pg 814
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

JAMES CUMMINGS, farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. De Witt; born in County Kildare, Ireland, near Dublin, about 1827; he came to America with his parents in 1850; he went to Baltimore, Md.; remained about six months; then went to Pittsburgh; remained one year; then came to Clinton Co., and purchased his present farm; returned to Pittsburgh; settled on his farm the next spring. He married Ellen Dunn; they have one child -- Margaret; has eighty acres of land.