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 CULYER

CUMMING

endowment to he devoted to "the increase of knowledge within tiie field of the biological sciences." From this fund were built the four Hull biological laboratories of anatom}-, physi- ology, zoolog}' and botany, which were dedicated July 2, 1897. In 1896 she became a member of the Civic federation of Chicago. On the organ- ization of Hull House, April 15, 1895, named in honi>r of Cliarles J. Hull, she became a sup- pi >iior of the institution and a member of its bi^ard of tru.stees.

CULYER, John Yapp, landscape architect, was born in New York city, ^Liy 18, 1839; son of Jo"i;i and Sarah (Norton) Culver: grandson of Joim Culyer of Norfolk; and a de.scendant of Nel- son of Norfolk. England. He was educated in pri- vate schools and studied surveying and engineer- ing under Professor Bull of the University of the city of New York. He then spent one year in an architect's office in New York city. He was a member of the engineer corps under Frederick Liiw Olmsted, superintendent of Central Park, New York city, where he developed a talent for landscape architecture, especially in road con- struction, surface treatment and planting. In 1861 he accompanied Mr. Olmsted to Wasliington, D.C., where he assisted in organizing the U.S. sanitary cmmission. He then entered the engineer corps, li.S. army, under Gen. J. G. Barnard, and was engaged on fortification and defence works in Virginia soutli of the Potomac river. At the close of the war he was made engineer on Central Park by Comptroller A. H. Green, and in 1866 he assisted Mr. Stranahan in organizing and Mr. Olmsted in laying out Pros- j>ect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y"., where he was em- ployed for twenty years on the public parks, lx)ulevards and parkways. He resigned in 1886 and engaged as an exjjert landscape architect and was employed on parks in Chicago, New Orleans, Nashville, New York, Brookh-n, Albany, Pittsburg and Pater.son. He attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel and engineer in the N.Y. state national guard; was active in developing rapid transit in Brooklyn; and was a member of the board of education for twenty-five years. He was elected secretary and advisory landscape architect of the Tree Planting as.sociation of New York cit}- and contributed articles on land.scape gardening, .sanitary reforms and educational ad- vancement to the leading journals of America.

CUMBACK, William, representative, was bom in Franklin county, Ind., Mar'-h 24, 1829. He attended Miami university, 1847-48, was graduated at the Cincinnati law school in 1851, and practised in Greensbury, Ind. He was a representative from Indiana in the:i4th congress, 1854-56; was defeated for the 35th congre.ss: was presidential elector in 1861; additional paymaster

in the U.S. army with rank of major. 1861-65; state .senator, 185-67; president of the senate and acting lieutenant-governor of the state, 1866-67; lieutenant governor, 1869-73; and col- lector of internal revenue. 1870-83. He declined the appointment as U.S. minister io Portugal, made bj' President Grant in 1870. In 1897 he declined the jxisition of arbitrator of a long- standing claim against the .state of Colombia, S.A. He became a leader in the claim of the laymen of the Methodist churcli to secure equal lay representation in the general congress of the cluirch. He published a volume of his lectures entitled Sr>rietii niid Lifp

CUMiVUNQ, Alfred, governor of Utah, was born in Augusta, Ga., Sept. 4, 1802; son of Thomas and Ann (Clay) Cumming; and grand son of Joseph and Ann (Lagardare) Clay. He was a sutler in the U.S. army during the Mexican war and afterward superintendent of Indian affairs on the upper Missouri. He was appointed governor of Utali by President Buchanan in 1857, and the government, to sustain him in restoring order among the Mormons, who were in revolt against the government, sent 1100 soldiers into the territory under command of Col. Albert Sidney Johnston This led to a question as to the right of the governor of the territory to command the Federal army in suppressing local outbreaks. Mr. Cumming claimed i)recedence in authority under his proclamation as governor, and Col. Thomas L. Kane, the special envoy sent ■bj" the President to Brigham Young, with Gov- ernor Cumming's consent, cliallenged Colonel Johnston. Afterward, when the troops were used at Provo to protect Judge Cradlebough during the trial of the Mormons indicted as actors in the Mountain Meadow massacre. Gov- ernor Cumming denounced the action of Colonel Johnston, and John B. Floyd, secretary of war, su-stained the governor. When the Mormons were pardoned by the President, Governor Cum- ming objected to the further use of U.S. troops, but in spite of his objections the army marched into Salt Lake City. He retired from office at the close of President Buchanan's administration. He died at Au^-usta. (ia., Oct. 9, 1873.

CUMMING, Alfred, soldier, was born in Au- gusta, Ga.. Jan. 30, 1829; son of Henry H. and Julia (Bryan) Cumming; grandson of Thomas and Ann (Clay) Cumming; great-grandson of Joseph and Ann (Lagardare) Clay; and a nephew of Governor Alfred Cumming. He was gradu- ated at the U.S. military academy in 1849 and was aid on the staff of Gen. D. E. Twiggs at New Orleans, 1851-53. He was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1855 and captain in the 10th in- fantry in 1856. During the Utah troubles of 1859-60 he was with Gen. A. S. Johnston's army