Spouse: Frances A. Cummins

Parents: Unknown

Born:
1850 Census lists him as 36 making birth about 1814 in Louisiana
1870 census lists him as 52 making birth in 1818 in Mississippi
1860 census lists him as 48 making birth about 1812 in Pennsyvania

Died: Unknown

Children:
John W. Cummins age 6 in 1850 Census, 17 in 1860 and 26 in 1870. In 1870 he is living in the household of his father F. P. Cummins with his wife Josephine and 4 year old daughter Francis Walker Cummins.
Richard W. Cummins age 10 in 1850 census, 20 in 1860 census, 28 in 1870 census all list birthplace as Indiana.
In 1860 he is listed as a student. In 1870 he is listed as a lieut. in the army.
Frances E. Cummins age 5 in 1850 census, age 15 in 1860 census, not listed in 1870, birthplace Indiana
Mary E. Cummins age 3 in 1850, 12 in 1860 and 21 in 1870. At this time she was living in the household of F. P. Cummins with her husband Edwin J. Swan Birthplace Indiana
Frederich W. Cummins age 2 in 1850, not listed in later census, birthplace Indiana
Harry? A. Cummins age 7 in 1860, not listed in 1870. birthplace Indiana
Caroline A. Cummins age 5 in 1860, listed as Carrie? age 14 in 1870, birthplace Indiana


Notes:

In 1850 he is listed as a presbyterian minister. A letter from the current church secretary, in Shelbyville Indiana, in regards to Rev. F. P. Cummins is quoted below.

"Apparently he had left the area by/before 1860 because he does not appear in those census records.

Our church records state that he was a Stated Supply on 22 June 1850 and relation was disolved in 1855. he was again a Stated Supply in March 1858 but it does not say when the relationship was dissolved; however, a new Stated Supply was installed on 2 Feb 1862.

I do not know which LaPorte County History you saw -- 1880 or the Rev E D Daniels illustrated 1904--but I am enclosing copies of the pages from both which are indexed. I am sorry that copies are not more perfect but the books are big and difficult to copy neatly."



From A Twentieth Century history and biographical record of LaPorte County Indiana by rev. E D Daniels illustrated 1904
Page 403
"In 1845 a Presbyterian church had been organized near Union Mills, whcih ceased to exist. On June 22, 1850, antoher was organized by Rev. F. P. Cummins, in a schoolhouse about two miles east of union Mills, where Mr. Cummins preached until 1856."
Page 331
....october of that year the papers mentioned the Collegiate Institute as flourishing. yet it was closed in 1848, probably at the end of the fall term. In August 1856, Mr. Cummins announced that "the LaPorte Collegiate Institute and Female Seminary, successfully conducted by the subscriber for several years, and which closed in 1848," would be reopened on the first monday of September with Mr. W. B. Truax, A. b. as assisstant. The attempt, however, was not successful; public schools were now forging to the front, the war came on, and in 1861 Mr. Cummins became chaplain of Colonel fitch's regiment, then in camp at LaFayette.

The medical department of the university was more successful. It held on its course year after year. In 1846 or `47 its name was changed to the Indiana Medical College. Its catalogue showed that it was in a very prosperous c ondition. The number of students attending it increased so as to make it practicable to increase the faculty.It was considered one of the best institutions of its kind in the west. At the commencement in 1847 there were one hundred and four students in attendance, upon ninteen of whom was conferred the degree of M. D., and the honorary degree of M. D. was conferred upon two gentlemen from New york. The first building it occupied stood where Davidsons & Porter's Store now stands. This was afterwards occupied by the literary department under Professor Cummins.

Page 402
The second or New School Presbyterian church was organized November 3, 1844, in a school house bleonging to rev. F. P. Cummins




From History of La Porte County Indiana, Chicago, Chas C. Chapman & Co. 1880

Page 619
In 1848-49 F. P. Cummins was a member of the board of trustees for what was later named the Indiana Medical College.
In 1843 in LaPorte F. P. Cummins was principal of the Lancasterian Academy which offered a "thorough english course, including philosophy, the natural sciences, and the higher mathematics, there was taught Latin. Greek, German and French. this institution had but a brief existence. ...... When it was determined to organize the literary departement of the La Porte University, application was made to Prof. Cumins to merge his school in it, as such a move would be likely to make it successful from the start. to this proposition he assented, and in connection with Rev. Mr. Marshall, pastor, at the time, of the Presbyterian Church, he opened this department of the university. But it seems not to have met with the success its friends anticipated and hoped; it languished and died.

Page 809
On June 22, 1850 in district No. 1 in Noble township the "Bethel Presbyterian Church" was charted by Rev. F. P. Cummins a resident of la Porte at the time. He presided until January 1856.


Page 565
F. P. Cummins appointed June 1853 for one year to the list of County Examiners and Superintendents

Appointed again in March of 1854.