Background
Cumings, Edgar Roscoe was born on February 20, 1874 in North Madison, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles and Rebecca A. (Sullivan) Cumings.
Cumings, Edgar Roscoe was born on February 20, 1874 in North Madison, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles and Rebecca A. (Sullivan) Cumings.
Bachelor of Arts, Union College (New York), 1897. Graduate study Cornell Univercity, 1897. Fellow Yale University, 1901-1903, Doctor of Philosophy, 1903.
Doctor of Science, Union College, 1912.
Instructor paleontology, 1898-1903, assistant and associate professor and head department geology, 1903-1909, professor and head department geology since 1909, professor emeritus since 1944, secretary faculty, 1913-1920, acting dean Graduate School, 1914-1919 and 1923, Indiana University. Author of numerous papers on geology and paleontology with special reference to the stratigraphy of the Ordovician formations of New York and Indiana, the development, morphology and phylogeny of Brachiopoda and Bryozoa, Silurian of the Michigan Basin region, and the structure of ancient coral reefs.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society of America (vice president 1931), Paleontological Society America (vice president 1928. Member American Association University Professors (council 1916-1919 and 1923-1926), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Frances Lois Crowther, June 28, 1905. Children: Edith Katharine, Edgar Crowther.