When Arthur Franklin Cummings was born on 9 August 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, James Willard Cummings, was 38 and his mother, Hannah Topham, was 32. He married Isabella McGhie on 14 December 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 6 June 1922, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Scottish and English (of Norman origin): variant of Cumming , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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