When Mary E Cummings was born in 1852, in Michigan, United States, her father, John Nelson Cummings, was 36 and her mother, Martha Lease, was 29. She married John F Bryant in 1892. She lived in Clay Township, LaGrange, Indiana, United States in 1870. She died in 1929, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 77.
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A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish and English (of Norman origin): variant of Cumming , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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