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Whitfield Townsend Cummings
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Whitfield Townsend Cummings

22 Nov 1849 - 12 Oct 1917
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
bornIndependence, Missouri, USA
SchooltblData
BiographyCame to Tempe in 1878.
Farmer.
In 1877, left Blue Springs, Missouri, with other members of his extended family to go to New Mexico, and eventually, to Tempe.
They arrived in Phoenix in Oct 1877, and lived on rented farm land east of Phoenix until August 1878, when he moved to a homestead two miles southwest of Tempe.
Lived on Creamery Road (E. 8th Street) in 1914.
OSB 46, OSB 54, OSB 58, OSB 68
BIO-Cosner
BIO-Cummings/Cummins
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Tempe CD, 1914
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Painter Scrapbook, p. 35
Person TypeIndividual