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- Apprenticeship with brother Jacob Jr at Reading Flour Mill, Newtonbrooke. 1
1857 at Newton Brooke he married Margaret James, Dau. of Joh & Catherine James.
. Yonge Street, Willowwdale: The next cross-roads is called Newton Brook, At the northwest corner still stands the store which William Willson Cummer formerly owned for many years.
1879 Dec 9 - Presentation. Tuesday evening 6th inst. a very pleasant gathering took place in the Wesleyan Church, NewtonBrook. Ladies of the congregation furnished a Social, but when the large audience were invited into the vestry, they found a repast that, for variety, delicacy & costliness, it would be difficult to excel anywhere. Enterainment by the choir, accompanied by music from the new organ under the accomplished leadership of Arthur L Willson, Esq., M.A. executed some choice selections of sacred mush. Brief added delivered by W W Cummer, Esq . who was unanimously called to the chair & Rev. James Montgomery.
Mr. Willson came forward at this stage of the proceedings & read a handsomely engrossed & highly eulogistic address to the Rev John Breeding, Superintendent of the circuit, accompanying it with a purse enclosing the handsome sum of $102, a gift from the congregation. Mr. Bredin meet many friends from the various parts of his circuit, as also to recognize a goodly number of old friends from his last field of labor.
Ref: York Herald Newspaper.
1894 Nov 17 - Died, Cummer, At his late residence, Cadillac, Mich. UD, on Nov 9th, Wm. W Cummer, in his 60th year.
Ref: Globe Newspaper, Toronto, Ontario. - - -
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1835 - 1894 (59 years)