The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-01-17

Dr.. Albert Webster Cummings
Leaves the Terrestrial for the
Celestial.

A life spent in the interest OF his
fellow men ends.
! Although not entirely unexpected,
the people of this city were shocked to
hear of the death of DIR. A lbert Webster
! Cummings, an old ana respected
citizen of this place, on Saturday last.
DIR. Cummings was born near Paris,
Maine, on April 81, 1929. He received
! the best religious and educational
training that could be furnished in
that country. At the early age OF IA
years he became converted and inn
mediately became active in religious
work, and during his long life it was
i his highest ambition TO lead his fellow
! men to better, higher and nObler lives.
Every other object was suDordinated
to this desire.
At the age of 10 he left home to Sc
cure better educational facilities, and
spent three and One-haif years In
/ Boston anu New Bedford.
He was married on March 8, 1854, to
Miss Esther Jordon who died of quick
consumption the following October.
Ia 1857 he came to Minnesota, stop
ping a short time in st. Paul, after
wards going to Glencoe, Mimi. to
reside with his brother.
In 1855 he was licensed as an ex-
horter in the Methodist Episcopal
church, and was assigned as pastor
to Glencoe, New Auburn. Young
America and Hutchinson. He rem
dered the Rev. Thos. McCleary valu-
able assistance in revival during the
winters OF 1858 and 1859.
Il 1850 he was licensed as preach
er, and in July, 1860 was married to
Miss Emiline E. Dean. who survives
him. Four weeks after his MARI aye,
accompanied by his wife, he attended
the annual conference at Red Wing,
where he had been recommended by
the Quarterly Conference, where lie
was received and transferred to the
! Northwest Wisconsin Conference.
His first appointment was at
! Trempeauleau, Wis. Afterwards he
was stationed at Mindora, Hipton,
Eau Claire, where he built fine new
church and parsonage; Prescott,
where he began the erection of an
other church but was transferred be-
fore it was quite finished; Pleasant
! rhnrn hv hsu oy,orniffc ol.
mi l.ietratiCn he collected money to
pay for a church that had been built
two years before and the church Was
dedicated. His next appointment
was at Hazel Green, where many
| Joined the church under his ministra-
ton. From there he went to Dodge
vile, where more than one hundred
joined the church during his labors
there and where he raised funds to
put tho church in thorough repairs.
He was next assigned to BOscObell
and Lancaster where he was very
successful and largely increased the
membership and where he built a
new brick church. The tremendous
drafts on his energy and vitality re-
quisite to secure these results SO i'm
paired his health that he was unable
t. continue in the work of the
ministry and he asked the Conference
for supernumerary rel alton.
He was ordained deacon by Bishop
E. S. James at the Conference held
at Hudson, Wis.,, Sept. 1872 and in
1864 was ordained Elder by Bishop
Calvin Kingsley.
| After retirin ON the ministry
his health improved and he renewed
the study of medicine which he had
begun in his youth and took a
medical course at Hahnemann's
Medical College, Chicago, ILL.,, where
he graduated and received his
diploma. He practiced for time at
Mason City, Iowa.
| The ministers of Iowa con-
| ference induced him to enter the
work OF the church again. He had a
desire to return to Minnesota where
his first work as minister was per-
formed and was transferred to this
state and received an appointment at
Sank Centre remaining one year going
from here to Glencoe where he remain
ed one year returning to Sank Centre
in the autumn of 1880.
He soon found that the hard work
and close confinement of ministerial
work was again breaking down his
health and he was compelled to give
up the ministry and resume the
practice of medicine.
He returned to Sank Centre as a
physician and remained here until
his old Wisconsin friends persuaded
him to remove to Granite Falls in
this state where he built up a large
and successful practice.
DR.. Cummings heart was always
in Minnesota where his earliest and
best work had been done. This long
ing for the North Star state was
intensified by the fact that his only
child Mrs. L. IS. Bishop and his
grandchildren resided in this city,
and he returned here to spend his
last days. He was a loving father, a
devoted husband ands his death