William Willson CUMMER

Male 1835 - 1894  (59 years)


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  • Name William Willson CUMMER 
    Born 8 Feb 1835  Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Yonge Street.
    Gender Male 
    Died 9 Nov 1894  Cadillac, Wexford Co., Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Aged 59y 9m.
    Person ID I40  John Willson, Piscataway, NJ and Ontario Family Tree
    Last Modified 10 Aug 2017 

    Father John Henry CUMMER, Esq.
              b. 28 Mar 1797, Newtonbrook, Willowdale (Toronto), Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 11 Sep 1868, Toronto, York Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Mother Sarah Lockman SMITH
              b. 30 Jun 1806, Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 11 Apr 1870, Waterdown, Wentworth Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years) 
    Married 1 Jan 1823  Town of York (Toronto), Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F26  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margarette JAMES
              b. 29 Nov 1834, Newtonbrook, Willowdale (Toronto), Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 3 Apr 1897, Cadillac, Wexford Co., Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married 1857 
    Children 
     1. Herbert Harvey CUMMER
              b. 23 Aug 1860, Bronte, Wentworth Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 18 Sep 1918, Cadillac, Wexford Co., Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years)
     2. William Sheldon Howard CUMMER
              b. 13 Feb 1875, Newtonbrook, Willowdale (Toronto), Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 26 Apr 1918, Cadillac, Wexford Co., Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years)
    Last Modified 4 Jan 2011 
    Family ID F29  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • 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. - - -