Ebenezer Harlow Cummins (c. 1780–1834)
In 1818 Cummins notified Bushrod Washington of the latter's election as an honororary member of the Philadelphia Southern Society.
Ebenezer Harlow Cummins was born in North Carolina circa 1780. His family moved to Georgia, where he gained admittance to the bar and sat in the state legislature. Following relocation to Washington, Cummins served as a lieutenant in the District of Columbia militia during the War of 1812. He then entered the news business, publishing the short-lived Spirit of ’Seventy-Six (1813) and Senator (1813–14) before moving to Baltimore to work as a clergyman and magistrate.
"To James Madison from Ebenezer H. Cummins, 23 July 1811 (Abstract)," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-03-02-0463. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 3, 3 November 1810–4 November 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, pp. 390–391.]
"To James Madison from Ebenezer H. Cummins, 13 December 1820," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-02-02-0153. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 1 February 1820 – 26 February 1823, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, pp. 179–180.]
Ebenezer Harlow Cummins to Andrew Jackson, 10 August 1826, in Michael E. Woods, ed., The Papers of Andrew Jackson Digital Edition (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2015–).
Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors, 5th edition (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1904), 82.
Augustin Smith Clayton, A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Passed by the Legislature Since the Political Year 1800, to the Year 1810, Inclusive (Augusta: Adams & Duyckinck, 1812), 120.
Alexandria Gazette (VA), 21 January 1834, page 3, column 2 (Newspapers.com).
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