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Albert S. Cummings


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(Born: January 3, 1817 - Died: September 3, 1903)

Albert S. Cummings was born in Mifflinburg, PA on January 3, 1817. He attended the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg (now Gettysburg College) in 1838-1840, where he was the Corresponding Secretary for the Philomathaean Society. He later became a doctor. He moved from Middlebury, PA to Lewistown about 1848, and to Sunbury about 1862, and ultimately to Selinsgrove, where he continued his practice until 1872. He married Louisa E. Richter (1831-1911) on February 20, 1849. After 1872, he returned to Sunbury, where he died on September 3, 1903.

 

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Bibliography:

  • Breidenbaugh, E. S. (editor), The Pennsylvania College Book, 1832-1882, Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1882 (published for the Alumni Association of Pennsylvania College), p. 384
  • Croll, Prof. L. H., “The Philomathaean Society” The Pennsylvania College Book, 1832-1882, Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1882 (published for the Alumni Association of Pennsylvania College), pp. 112-124
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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