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 CUMMINS

CURRIER

as the " Cummins schism." He presided at the organization of the Reformed Episcopal church, of which he was elected the iirst bishop in 1873. The College of New Jersey conferred upon him the degree of S.T.D. in 1857. He published: Sketch of the Life of Rev. William 31 Jackson (1856) ; Life of Mrs. Virginia Hale Hoffman, late of the P. E. Mission to Western Africa (1859) ; and pamphlets pertaining to the foundation of the Reformed Episcopal church. See his Life (1878) by his wife. He died in Lutherville, Baltimore county, Md., June 26, 1876.

CUMMINS, Maria Susan, author, was born in Salem, Mass. , April 9, 1838 ; daughter of Judge David Cummins. She was educated at Mrs. Charles Sedgwick's celebrated Lenox school. She began to write in 1850 and became a frequent ■contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. Of her first book, "The Lamp- lighter," published in 1854, over 119,000 copies were sold in America, England, France and Ger- many. She also published: Mabel Vaughan (1857) ; El Fureiclis: a Story of Palestine and Syria (1860) ; and Haunted Hearts (1864). She died in Dor- chester, Mass., Oct. 1, 1866.

CUMSTON, Charles McLaughlin, educator, was born in Scarborough, Maine, Jan. 12, 1824; •son of Henry Van Schaick and Catharine (McLaughlin) Cumston ; grandson of Capt. John and Sarah (Moody) Cumston and of Robert and Martha (Johnson) McLaughlin; and great-grand- sou of John and Elizabeth Cumston, who came tvoni England and settled in Boston, Mass., .about 1750, and of William McLaughlin, an Ulster man. who mai-ried Sarah Jameson of Ph'mouth, Mass., and settled in Scarborough at the beginning of the eighteenth centiiry. His grandfather, Capt. John Cumston, made the campaign of Quebec with Arnold in 1775. Charles was prepared for college at Monmouth academy and Water-^'ille institute and was grad- uated at Bowdoin in 1843. He taught school in Turner and Gray, Maine, 1843-44; Alfred acad- emy, 1844-45; Reading, Woburn and Salem, JMass., 1845-48; English high school, Boston, Mass., 1848-74; being head master, 1869-74. He resigned his charge of the school in 1874 and took up his residence with his maiden sister in Mon- movith, Maine, in the house which was the home •of his boyhood. He gave to the town Cumston Hall, erected in 1899, at an expense of $20,000. He was elected a corresponding member of the Maine historical society in 1894. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin col- lege in 1870.

CUNNINGHAM, Arthur, librarian, was born in Richmond, Ind., Feb. 21, 1865; son of Joseph Arthvir and Sarah Jane (Swaney) Cunningham; and a nephew of Mrs. Jane Cunningham Croly

("Jennie June"). He was graduated from DePauw university in 1887 and was instructor in Latin and assistant librarian in his alma mater from 1887 to 1890, when he was appointed libra- rian in the state normal school at Terre Haute, Ind. He was one of the founders of the Indiana library association, being its first vice-president and second president, and was also elected a member of the American library association. He was twice married, his first wife being Eleanor Piercy, who died May 9, 1892, and his second, Elizabeth Long, a professor of mathe- matics in the Indiana state normal school, to whom he was married March 29, 1894. The degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by De Pauw university in 1890

CURRAN, Charles Courtney, painter, was born in Hartford, Ky., Feb, 13, 1861; son of Ulysses T. and Elizabeth (Thompson) Curran; and grandson of James Curran. He received a common school education and studied art in the Cincinnati (Oliio) school of design, the National academy of design, the New York art students' league, and Julian academy, Paris, France, studying in the latter city under Doucet, Le- febvre, and Benjamin Constant. He was chosen a member of the Society of American artists in 1888, of the New^ York water color club, and of the American water color society. In 1895 he was elected an associate of the National academy of design. He was married June 12, 1889, to Grace W., daughter of Charles Preston and Emily Jane (Wildman) Wickham of Norwalk, Ohio. Among his paintings are Breezy Days, which was awarded the 3d Halgartan prize at the National academy of design in 1888 ; The Sirens, which won the Clarke prize in 1893; and The Enchanted Shore, second Halgarten prize, 1895, -at the National academy of design. He received a sil- ver medal for art work at the Cotton States ex- position at Atlanta, Ga., in 1892, and a medal at the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago, 111., in 1893. In 1899 he exhibited at the Boston art club Among the Hollyhocks and Catching dlinnoir.'i.

CURRIER, Albert Henry, educator, was born in Skowhegan, Maine, Nov. 15, 1837; son of Wil- lis and Mary (Weston) Currier; grandson of Thomas Currier and of Stephen Weston, both of Skowhegan, Maine; and a descendant of Richard Currier, who settled in Salisbury, N.H., in 1640, and of James Weston, who, in the Revolutionary war, guided Arnold's forces through the track- less forests of ]\Iaine in their attack upon Quebec. He was graduated from Bowdoin college in 1857, and from the Andover theological seminary in 1862. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Dec. 3, 1862, and preached at Ashland, Mass., 1862-65, and at Central church, Lynn,