Biography

Found in 18290703FMS_WHS1 as Mr Cummings. The Rev. Dr. Charles Cummins, D.D., was the son of Charles and Elizabeth (Boyd) Cummins, and was born in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pa., July 15, 1776. He was graduated at Dickinson College in 1800. He was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of New Castle in 1801 and soon after was ordained and installed, by the same Presbytery, as pastor of Chestnut Level and Little Britain churches. Here he labored from 1804 to 1808. In 1808 he became pastor of the church in Florida, N. Y., and, with the exception of a year which he spent in Virginia, as agent for the American Colonization Society, he continued his labors in Florida until 1849, when he resigned his pastoral charge. In 1852 he moved to Muscatine, Iowa.