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Amos Jay Cummings was born on May 15, 1841 in Conkling, New York, the son of Rev. Moses and Julia Ann (Jones) Cummings.
His father was editor of the Christian Herald and Christian Palladium.
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Amos Jay Cummings was born on May 15, 1841 in Conkling, New York, the son of Rev. Moses and Julia Ann (Jones) Cummings.
His father was editor of the Christian Herald and Christian Palladium.
The educational advantages of the village were few, and Amos, having exhausted them, at twelve years was apprenticed at his eager desire to the printer in whose shop his father’s papers were brought out.
At fifteen years he ran away, working as a tramp printer and compositor from town to town through much of the eastern United States.
In Mobile he joined one of the Walker filibustering expeditions to Nicaragua, but the exciting adventure ended soon with his arrest and return to the United States with Walker.
Reaching New York he worked as a typesetter on the Tribune until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the 26th Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers.
By 1863 he was a sergeant-major and had been mentioned for signal bravery at Fredericksburg. His two years in the Virginia swamps, however, nearly broke him physically and left him permanently with impaired health. He returned to the New York. Tribune once more and was one of the four who remained to defend the printing office during the draft riots.
He lost his job because of a strike and went to Yonkers on the Law Transcript but again returned to the editorial staff of the Tribune in 1865 with the task of condensing news for the Weekly Tribune.
His remarkable news sense came into evidence and he was amazed and gratified to have Greeley take him on as night editor on the daily.
In December 1868 he went to the Sun, soon serving as night editor, later as managing editor. His army illness recurred in 1872 and he resigned after the Republican presidential convention to travel and indulge his desire to rove. For the following four years he wrote from the South and West the letters to the Sun signed "Ziska, ” reporting to an interested audience his observations in the hinterland.
In 1876 he edited for a time the Evening Express, in which the head of Tammany, John Kelly, had a controlling interest. The next year he did feature articles for the Sun on political events, and reported several famous murder trials.
In 1886 he was elected as a Tammany Democrat to the House of Representatives from the sixth New York district. He declined renomination in 1888 because he wanted to stay in journalism.
The evening Sun was founded under his editorship. When Representative S. S. Cox died in September 1889, Cummings reconsidered and was elected to fill the vacancy.
He served in the House with but one other interruption until his death. He declined renomination in 1894 to act as subway commissioner but lost that place with a change in municipal administration. Fie was then elected to the seat vacated by the death of Andrew J. Campbell.
Cummings was essentially a newspaper man. In Congress he was a Tammany regular and served without particular distinction, though he was extremely popular with his colleagues.
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His Sayings of Uncle Rufus (1880) testify to his humor.
After the death of his first wife, he was married on March 6, 1869, to Frances Caroline Roberts.