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Title: Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Biographical Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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England, Jan., 1625, HistoricFounder of Plymouth Plantation (Cushman Gen., pages 9, 77,84), and another who died Apr. 21, 1799, helped to build the oldState House on State Street, Boston. Although born with such a wealth of ancestry, Lincoln C. Cum-mings had the enormous handicap of orphanage and poverty tosurmount. But he had a noble mother, Annie Chfford Cummingsborn January 19,1830, died November 14,1899, who brought up herboy with a proper sense of his worthy antecedents and who in-spired him with ambition to honor them. He had a responsive in-tellect and a nature to be strongly and permanently influenced inyouth by matters religious, humanitarian, patriotic and political.He was obliged as a boy to lend all the help he could to support thehome and to help pay for such educational facilities as he couldcommand. He obtained a good common school education and suchadvanced training as Gorham Academy could give him. He fittedfor Harvard, from which his father had graduated in 1848, but
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