| LC control no. | nr 00008672 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cummings, Alexander, 1810-1879 |
| Variant(s) | Cumming, Alexander, 1810-1879 Cumings, Alexander, 1810-1879 |
| See also | Colorado Territory. Governor (1865-1867 : Cummings) |
| Birth date | 1810 |
| Death date | 1879 |
| Place of birth | Williamsport (Pa.) |
| Profession or occupation | Territorial governors Generals Army Officers Commercial agents Governors Journalists Merchants Printers Publishers |
| Found in | Letter of Alexander Cummings in reply to the report of the Van Wyck Committee, 1862 RLIN, 3/14/00 (hdg.: Cummings, Alexander) Colorado State Archives website, viewed July 28, 2016 (Alexander Cummings, the third governor of the Territory of Colorado from 1865-1867, was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on November 17, 1810. In February 1864 Cummings was made Superintendent of Troops of African Descent for the State of Arkansas, and for his efforts he was brevetted the rank of Brigadier General by President Johnson. Died while performing consular activities in Ottawa, Canada, in June of 1879) <https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/archives/alexander-cummings> America's Historical Newspapers, via WWW, Feb. 5, 2019: New York Herald, July 19, 1979 (Alexander Cummings; journalist; merchant; printer; publisher; raised a regiment of cavalry during the Civil War, and made colonel; named governor of the Territory of Colorado, 1866; later named collector of internal revenue for the Fourth District of Pennsylvania; at the time of his death was commercial agent for the U.S. at Ottawa; b. Lycoming, Pa.; d. Ottawa, last Wednesday) MWA/NAIP files, Feb. 5, 2019 (access point: Cummings, Alexander, 1810-1879; variants: Alexander Cumming; Alexander Cumings) |
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