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Henry Harford Cumming
b.15 Oct 1799
d.14 Apr 1866
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Name[1] Henry Harford Cumming
Gender Male
Birth[2] 15 Oct 1799
Marriage 2 Feb 1824 Hancock, Georgia, United Statesto Julia Ann Bryan
Death[2] 14 Apr 1866
Reference Number? Q16065813?


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Henry Harford Cumming (1799–1866) was an important figure in antebellum Augusta, Georgia.

His main business was in cotton but he also engaged J. Edgar Thomson to design the Augusta Canal, in order to run his mills and had started a law firm with politician George W. Crawford. His brother was Governor of Utah Territory Alfred Cumming and his son, Alfred Cumming, was a general in the Confederate States Army.

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References
  1. Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie. A History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family: in connection with the history, genealogy and mention of the families of Clay, Stiles, Cumming, King, Elliott, Milledge, Maxwell, Adams, Houstoun, Screven, Owens, Demere, Footman, Ellis, Washington, Newell, deTreville, Davis, Barrington, Lewis, Warner, Cobb, Flournoy, Pratt, Nephew, Bolton, Bowers, Cuthbert, and many other names either as having a connection to some other family or showing of the name as related or connected to some family in this work. (Columbia, S.C.: The R. L. Bryant Co., 1901)
    p. 38.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Montgomery Cumming. Table of the Decendants of Joseph Clay of Savannah, GA., 1741 to 1804. (Washington, D.C., Jan. 1, 1897).
  3.   Henry Harford Cumming, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.