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| Johnstown Weekly Democrat, 16 Aug 1889, Page p1; c4, Contributed by Lynne Canterbury |
| JUDGE CUMMIN DEAD. Career of an Eminent Judge and a Successful Lawyer. Judge H. H. Cummin, member of the food relief commission appointed by Governor Beaver, died at Cresson, Sunday morning at eight oclock of Brights disease. The body was taken to Williamsport, his late home, on a special car tendered by the officials of the Pennsylvania road [sic]. The remains were accompanied by Mrs. Cummin and her daughter and son. Hugh Hart Cummin was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was born May 25, 1841, at Liverpool, Perry county, Pa. He was educated in the public school at his native village and afterwards became teacher in the same institution. Until 1862, he lived in Liverpool. In that year, he removed to Williamsport, where he has since resided. His legal reading was done in the office of the late George White, and in August 1864, he was admitted to the Lycoming county bar. He enlisted in the army in 1864 and went to the front, serving until the close of the war, when he returned home and formed a partnership with his former preceptor, under the firm name of White & Cummin, which continued until Mr. Whites death, which occurred in 1868. For ten years, Mr. Cummin continued alone the practice of the firm, which had become very lucrative. In 1878 he was elected President Judge of the Lycoming county courts. He was the peoples candidate and after a hot fight secured a handsome majority. When elected the business was two years behind, but the dockets were soon cleared, and the countys business has since been kept up to date, though the expenses of the courts were reduced about one half. After having made a record on the bench second to none is the Commonwealth, Judge Cummin retired early in the present year and resumed the practice of his profession, which he neglected when his city was devastated by the flood of May 31st, and devoted his whole time to the relief of his unfortunate neighbors. He was chairman of the Citizens Relief Committee, and so well did he perform his work that Governor Beaver appointed him a member of the State Flood Committee, and he was by that body unanimously chosen as their resident representative at Johnstown. He at once took up his residence at Cresson, so as to be near the scene of his labors, and it was while engaged in his arduous labors that he was stricken with the disease that terminated in his death. Judge Cummin was married in May, 1869, to Miss Charlotte White, of Williamsport, who survives him with one son, who has recently finished his freshman year at Harvard College. |
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