Researching John Cummings
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The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Cummings and the Cummings Family History
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John Cummings (Massachusetts banker)
John Cummings (19 October 1812 – 21 December 1898) served as the president of Shawmut Bank for 30 years, from 1868 until 1898. Owner of a farm and tannery in Woburn, Massachusetts. John Cummings also served in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Senate. He ran for Congress, unsuccessfully, in 1876.
He was a trustee of the Woburn Public Library and of the Warren Academy of Woburn. He was also on the school committee. He was a director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind.
It is also said that his great recreation was the study of Natural History and "he became so interested in that, that he was led to join the Boston Natural History Society, where he became much interested in Botany, and was chairman of the Botany section."
Mr. Cummings took a great interest in his large farm in Woburn which he had bought from the heirs of his grandfather. Today his farm is kept as a public pleasure ground known as Mary Cummings Park named after his second wife who gave the farm on Babylon Hill to the City of Boston to be kept in trust "forever open as a public pleasure ground".
Source: John Cummings (Massachusetts banker), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Cummings (piper)
Professor John Cummings (1828-after 1913) was an Irish piper.
A son of Patrick Cummins (fl. 1820s), Cummings was raised near Athenry, where his family had performed and taught music for generations. The family name was originally rendered Cummins but the spelling was changed to Cummings in his lifetime. He was given the honorary title of Professor in light of the esteem people held his musical abilities.
Cummings worked in England from about 1850 to 1892, in Liverpool where he worked in building and became friends with the piper/pipemaker Michael Egan, and London, "where he had much to do with the handling and care of horses."
In 1892 he left England for San Francisco, where he lived with his daughter, Mrs. Hogan. Only in 1912, as a result of the Gaelic Revival did he come to a wide audience; previously he performed privately. He was held, despite his age, to be the equal of Patsy Touhey and Barney Delaney
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