From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 579.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JAMES CUMMINS

James Cummins was born in Washington, Penn., in 1827. He graduated at 
Washington college in 1845, commencing the study of medicine with his 
brother in i846.  One course of lectures he attended in Cincinnati 
but graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1849.  He at once    
joined his brother in partnership, this continuing until the latter's 
death in 1973.  Early in 1877 he associated with himself Dr. R. H. 
Bullard, a former student.  He was married in 1852 to Miss Kate, a 
daughter of the late John L. Hobbs, Esq.  She survived the union but 
a short time. In 1861 he married Miss Annie, daughter of the late J. 
H. Williams, Esq.  Two children, a son and daughter, still survive.  
The second wife died in 1873.  This sad calamity, with the loss of 
his brother and partner in practice the same year, was a great shock 
to Dr. Cummins, and he ever after seemed lost to the pleasures of the 
world.  He often called to the writer to "come in and talk to me," 
and seemed grateful for companionship and sympathy.  Every physician 
in the city loved "Jim Cummins," as he was familiarly called, for all 
knew his goodness of heart, his freedom from deceit and from the 
jealousy so common in the world in which we move.  He was, like his 
brother, an expert obstetrician, and no one hesitated to seek his 
aid, for all knew that no unfair advantage would be taken in a 
consultation.  Dr. Cummins died of hepatic disease, August 18, 1877.  
He was a member of the American Medical association, of the medical 
society of the city of Wheeling and county of Ohio, and of the State 
Medical society. He was at one time also secretary of the board of 
health of the city.       


(Linda Fluharty)