Biography

01/03/1802 - 01/28/1872

CUMMINGS, Dr. James C., a Representative from Fayette County; born, January 3, 1802 in Rising Sun, Cecil County, Md.; M.D., Jefferson College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College); physician; coroner, Fayette County (appointed, 1829-1835; elected, 1841-1844); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1844 and 1845 terms; proprietor, Yough House hotel, Connellsville; died, January 28, 1872 in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hill Grove Cemetery, Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.