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Born in Franklin County, Ind., on Mar. 24, 1829, Will Cumback, son of John and Elsie
Cumback, was reared on a farm and educated in the country schools. He
attended Miami University and the Cincinnati Law School and began
the practice of law in Greensburg,
Ind., in 1853. When he was barely twenty-five years old, he was
elected to Congress and was the youngest member of the 34th Congress. During the
Civil War he served as paymaster of the army. His other public offices included
state senator, lieutenant governor, and collector of internal revenue. He died in
1905.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I;
Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, and the
Barry Ms.
- Address Delivered by Hon. Will Cumback, at the Annual Reunion
of the Miami and Whitewater Valley Pioneer Association, at Hunt's
Grove, O., Saturday August 4, 1888; Also, the Presentation Speech by William
Carson. Harrison, Ohio, 1888.
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Switch to EncyclopediaClose XMAYNARD, JACOB BECKWITH: 1819-1902.
Jacob Beckwith Maynard, son of Andrew and Athalinda Beckwith
Maynard, was born in New York City on Feb. 19, 1819, and was educated
in a private school in Brooklyn and at Essex Academy in
Connecticut.
In 1835 he came west to Illinois, where he worked on an uncle's farm and in a country store for
four years before moving on to St. Louis. In 1842 he
became connected with the American Cannel Coal Company at Honesville, Ky. The
company was moved to Cannelton,
Ind., in 1843, and Mr. Maynard then became a
resident of Indiana.
In 1847 he married Elizabeth Archer,
who died in 1874. He went into the mercantile business at
Cannelton in 1848 but in 1852
returned to the American Cannel Coal Company, remaining with that firm until 1857, when he purchased the Cannelton REPORTER.
In 1862 he removed to Louisville and spent the next twelve
years working for various newspapers–the LOUISVILLE
DEMOCRAT, the COURIER, the COURIER- JOURNAL, and the LEDGER. In 1874 he purchased an interest in
the St. Joseph, Mo., GAZETTE, becoming its editor-in-chief. Two years later he sold his
interest in this paper and returned to Indiana, where he was commercial editor of the Indianapolis SENTINEL and later
chief editorial writer.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. 11.
- Men of Progress (withWill Cumback). Indianapolis, 1899.
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