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Cumming family correspondence
Collection — Box: 1-4
Identifier: MSS-025
Abstract
Original letters, beginning with business letters to Thomas Cumming, first intendant (mayor) of Augusta, letters from his children through several generations. There is a large group of letters from Julien Cumming from a prison camp during the Civil War. Julien later died there. Thomas Cumming (1765-1834), businessman, married Anne Clay (1767-1849), resided in Augusta, Georgia and had eight children. Their children included Joseph (1790-1846) and Henry Harford (1799-1866) who married Julia...
Dates:
Created: 1794-1954; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983
Found in:
Reese Library Archives
Joseph and Henry Cumming papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-071
Abstract
This collection contains the following manuscripts: "Reminiscences of Jospeph B. Cumming" and "A Northern Daughter and a Southern Wife". Correspondence regarding publication is also included. In addition, there is a paper by James C.C. Block, President of the Augusta Bar Association (1903) and a paper about Henry H. and Joseph B. Cumming.
Dates:
Created: 1799-1983; Other: Date acquired: 12/00/1983
Found in:
Reese Library Archives