Person:Harvey Cummins (1)
Harvey Henry Cummins
b.23 Feb 1816 Windsor, Vermont, United States
d.21 Feb 1895 Allen, Indiana, United States
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  1. Harvey Henry Cummins1816 - 1895
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m. 1838
  1. Mary Ann Cummins1839 - 1892
  2. William Francis Cummins1844 - 1917
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Name[1][2][3][4][5] Harvey Henry Cummins
Alt Name Harry Cummins
Alt Name[6] Henry Cummins
Alt Name[7] Henry Commins
Alt Name[8] Harvey Henry Cummins
Alt Name[9] Henry Cummins
Alt Name[10] Henry Commins
Alt Name[10] Henry Commins
Alt Name[11] Harvey Cummins
Gender Male
Birth[1][8][10][3][4][11] 23 Feb 1816 Windsor, Vermont, United States
Alt Birth[7] Abt 1816 Vermont, United States
Alt Birth[5] 22 Feb 1816 Ohio, United States
Alt Birth[2][6][12] 22 Feb 1816 Vermont, United States
Marriage 1838 to Matilda Kilbourn
Residence[5] 1840 Russell Center, Geauga, Ohio, United States
Residence[9] 1 Jun 1840 Russell Center, Geauga, Ohio, United States
Census[8] 1850 Allen, Indiana, United Statesas Henry Cummins
Residence[6] 1850 Maumee, Allen, Indiana, United States
Census[8] 1860 Allen, Indiana, United Statesas Henry Commins
Residence[4] 1860 Madison, Franklin, Ohio, United States
Residence[7] 1860 Maumee, Allen, Indiana, United States
Census[8] 1870 Allen, Indiana, United Statesas Henry Cummins
Residence[12] 1870 Springfield, Allen, Indiana, United States
Census[8] 1880 Harlan, Allen, Indiana, United Statesas Henry Cummins with wife Matilda
Residence[2] 1880 Harlan, Allen, Indiana, United States
Death[1][8][11][5] 21 Feb 1895 Allen, Indiana, United States
Alt Death[1] Allen, Indiana, United States

Valley of the Upper Maumee River WITH HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF ALLEN COUNTY AND THE CITY OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. THE STORY OF ITS PROGRESS FROM SAVAGERY TO CIVILIZATION. VOLUME I. MADISON, WIS.: BRANT & FULLER, 1889.

366 VALLEY OF THE UPPER MAUMEE.

Henry Cummins, one of the early settlers of Springfield township, was born in Vermont, February 23, 1816, son of Linden and Maria

ANNALS OF THE TOWNSHIPS. 367 (Wilkerson) Cummins. He came with his parents to New York when seven years of age. Thirteen years later they removed to the western reserve of Ohio, and remained about fifteen years, when he came to Indiana and first bought ninety-one and 54-ioo acres of wild land and afterward sixty-four more, which was all covered with a dense growth of timber, which he cleared away. In 1838 he was married to Matilda Kilborn, and first settled at Circleville, Ohio, where he worked at the carpenter's trade until he came to Indiana and settled in his little log cabin. Here he spent his golden days, as he was fond of hunting and many a deer fell before his unerring rifle. He has often followed the track of deer nine miles from home when it was almost sundown and no roads led him through a trackless forest. On his last hunt he killed ten or eleven deer in little less than two weeks and sold them at Fort -Wayne for about S6o. His marriage was blessed with eight children: Mary A., born July i6, 1839; Joseph D., May 12, 1841; Isabel, March 29, 1843; William F., November 29, 1844; Richard A., April 27, 1847, died 1875; Robert M., August 13, 1849; Estella, July 6, 1852; Charles E., Decem­ber 6, 1854. Mrs. Cummins was born November 17, 1814, and departed this life February io, 1881. He served as supervisor of the road in an early day when they had to cut the roads through the woods. He now owns 119 acres of good land besides his home property in Harlan, and is one of the respected old citizens of Allen county. Joseph D. Cummins, son of the above, is a native of Brown county, Ohio, born May 12, 1841. Being the oldest boy of the family, he had experience in pioneer life. In 1862 he enlisted in the late war in Com­pany D, Eighty-eighth Indiana volunteers, under Capt. Scott Swan, and participated in the following battles: Perryville, Stone River, Chick­amauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge (being with the Fourteenth army corps that made the charge that broke the rebel line and gained the victory), Ringgold, Altoona, Peach Tree Creek, Burnt Hickory Atlanta, Jonesboro, and was with Sherman in his march to the sea. At Perryville he received a wound in his right ankle which disabled him about eight weeks, and with the above and the exception of thirty days at home while sick, he was always at his post of duty. In 1S65 he received an honorable discharge at Indianapolis. He served in the cam­paign from Savannah, December I, 1864, through Georgia and Carolinas, and served in the battles of Averysborough and Bentonville, N. C., then to Galesboro and into camp until April 1o. From there they chased Johnston and captured him near Raleigh, N. C., and then marched via Richmond to Washington on foot. When he went to return to his com­pany after his furlough he started via Nashville, but could not get through and went via New York city, taking the steamer Ajax, which was chased by the rebel gunboats and narrowly escaped sinking. When he returned home he was engaged in the blacksmith business at Harlan about three years, and then started for the Black Hills, but was stopped at Fort Kearney, Neb., by the Indian outbreak. On April 20, 1873, he married Orsia Daniels, born June 28, 1852, by whom he has four chil-

368 VALLEY OF THE UPPER MAUMEE. dren: Bernice, born January 25, 1874; Otis, March 9, 1875; Ethel, October 18, 1881, and Mildred, August . i t, IS88. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is district steward and trustee. She was a teacher in the schools about ten years. He has been engaged in the saw=mill business about twenty years and now owns the saw-mill and planing-mill and band saw and does all kinds of wood work. He has a handsome two-story house in Harlan with all the modern improvements.

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;)
    Database online.

    Record for Henry Cummins _FOOT: Ancestry.com, OneWorldTree (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.), Database online.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 1880 United States Federal Census (1). (Name: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ©;)
    Database online. Maysville, Allen, Indiana, ED 104, roll T9_264, page 219.3000, image 0261.

    Record for Henry Cummins _FOOT: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005), Database online. Maysville, Allen, Indiana, ED 104, roll T9_264, page 219.3000, image 0261.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;)
    Database online. Year: 1850; Census Place: Maumee, Allen, Indiana; Roll: M432_135; Page: 205A; Image: .

    Record for Henry Cummins

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census (1). (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1;)
    Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: Madison, Franklin, Ohio; Roll: ; Page: 90; Image: 185.

    Record for Minton Cummins

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source)
    Database online.

    Record for Maria WILKERSON

  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;)
    Database online. Maumee, Allen, Indiana, roll M432_135, page 205, image 408.

    Record for Henry Cummins _FOOT: Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005), Database online. Maumee, Allen, Indiana, roll M432_135, page 205, image 408.

  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census (1). (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1;)
    Database online. Maumee, Allen, Indiana, post office Fort Wayne, roll M653_243, page 455, image 220.

    Record for Henry Commins _FOOT: Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004), Database online. Maumee, Allen, Indiana, post office Fort Wayne, roll M653_243, page 455, image 220.

  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source)
    Database online.

    Record for William Francis Cummins

  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 1840 United States Federal Census. (Name: Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.;)
    Database online. Year: 1840; Census Place: , Geauga, Ohio; Roll: 395; Page: 139.

    Record for Henry Cummins

  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census (1). (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1;)
    Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: Maumee, Allen, Indiana; Roll: ; Page: ; Image: .

    Record for Henry Commins

  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source)
    Database online.

    Record for Matilda KILBOURN

  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;)
    Database online. Springfield, Allen, Indiana, post office Eel River, roll 298, page 647, image 377.

    Record for Henry Cummins _FOOT: Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003), Database online. Springfield, Allen, Indiana, post office Eel River, roll 298, page 647, image 377.

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