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Gilbert W. Cumming

CUMMING, Gilbert W., lawyer, born in Delaware County, New York, in 1817. He was apprenticed to a carriage-maker, but spent his spare hours in study. He began to study law in 1838, and became prominent in his profession. During the anti-rent troubles of 1845 he commanded a military regiment, and succeeded in restoring quiet. He removed, ill 1853, to Janesville, Wis., and in 1858 to Chicago. In September 1861, he raised the 51st Illinois regiment, and was appointed its colonel. He was afterward assigned to the command of a brigade, and did good service at Island Number Ten, New Madrid, and Corinth.

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