Biography

1799 - 07/11/1883


CUMMINS, Joseph, a Representative from Somerset County; born, 1799 in Somerset, Somerset County, Pa.; proprietor, grocery store; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Somerset (1849); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1854 and 1855 terms; deputy sheriff, Somerset (1861-1862); president, Somerset and Mineral Point Railroad (1874); died, July 11, 1883 in Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania; interred, Union Cemetery, Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.


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