Hon. Benjamin F. Cummings (1864-1930)

CUMMINGS

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Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal August 26, 1930 (page 1)

JUDGE CUMMINGS DIED VERY SUDDENLY

MARSHALLTOWN JURIST WILL BE BURIED--SERVICE BRIEF

Marshalltown, Aug. 26--Private funeral services for Judge B. F. Cummings, 66, local jurist, who died at a local hospital early Monday, will be held from the Cummings home Wednesday.

A close and lifelong friend C. H. Boardman will deliver a brief eulogy and members of the District Bar Association will serve as pallbearers.

Judge Cummings had been a patient in the hospital since early this month, when he underwent a preliminary operation for a bladder infection. General septicemia had developed even before he gave up and entered the hospital, and his condition has been very serious from the very beginning of his illness. Death was due to the septic meningitis.

It was only last winter that Judge Cummings retired from the bench, thinking to devote the remaining years of his active life to his profession and extensive business interests. His public life in this county has extended over a period of more than forty years.

On Sept. 27 1913, Governor George W. Clark appointed Mr. Cummings of the Seventeenth district comprising Marshall, Tama and Benton counties, to fill the unexpired term of Judge C. B. Bradshaw, of Toledo, who had resigned.

Judge Cummings continued on the bench until Feb. 28 on this year when he was succeeded by Judge B. O. Tankersley of Marshalltown.