Cumming, Alexander
Cumming Alexander
a Congregational minister, native of Freehold, N. J., was born 1726. He entered the ministry 1747, and was made colleague pastor of the Presbyterian Church in New York, Oct. 1750. Owing to troubles in the Church, both pastors requested to be dismissed by a committee of the Synod in 1753, and Mr. Cumming was relieved Oct. 25, 1753. He was ordained collegiate pastor with Dr. Sewall, of the Old South Church, Boston, Feb. 25, 1761, where he remained until his death, Aug. 25, 1763. He published his ordination sermon at Boston (1761), and Animadversions on Rev. Mr. Croswell’s late Letter, etc. (1763). Sprague, Annals, 1:462.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Cumming, Alexander
a Scotch clergyman, was licensed to preach in 1828; presented to the living at Dunbarnie in 1833; ordained in 1834; joined the Free Secession in 1843, and became minister at Gorbals Free East Church in 1853. His publications were. a Lecture, a Sermon, and An Account of the Parish. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:634.