Background
Joseph Cummings was born of Scotch ancestry, in Falmouth, Maine on March 3, 1817. His ancestors settled in Maine about the middle of the eighteenth century. His father was a Methodist preacher.
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Joseph Cummings was born of Scotch ancestry, in Falmouth, Maine on March 3, 1817. His ancestors settled in Maine about the middle of the eighteenth century. His father was a Methodist preacher.
He prepared for college in the Academy at Kent’s Hill, Maine, and was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1840.
During his college course he supported himself in part by teaching school. For the next three years after graduation he taught natural science and mathematics in Amenia Seminary, New York.
From 1843 to 1846 he was principal of that institution. In 1846 he was admitted to the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he served for seven years in the pastorate. Ilis appointments were all in what is now Greater Boston. The churches which he served were among the most important in the Conference. In 1854 he entered upon the work of a college president, which was destined to be his life-work. From 1854 until 1857 he was president of Genesee College, Lima, New York, an institution which was subsequently absorbed in Syracuse University.
From 1857 to 1875 he was president of Wesleyan University.
In 1875 Cummings resigned the presidency, but remained in Wesleyan University for twro years as professor of mental philosophy and political economy, and then resumed his preaching.
On June 21, 1881, he was elected president of Northwestern University. During his administration in that institution, a debt of $200, 000 was paid off, schools of dentistry and pharmacy were established, a science hall was dedicated in 1887, and an astronomical observatory in 1889. He published a number of sermons and addresses delivered on various occasions, and some articles in church periodicals.
In 1875 he published an edition of Butler’s Analogy of Religion.
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He was a man of affairs rather than a scholar; and, in his thought, the president should be not merely the chairman of the faculty, but the controlling power in the whole life of the college.
He was an exceedingly dignified figure. His aspect when pleading for some great cause was singularly impressive. But with the robust strength blended a winning gentleness. He loved children, and children instinctively loved him. For a man of so vigorous an intellect and so strong a personality, he left a small amount of matter in print.
Joseph married, August 15, 1842, Deborah S. Haskell of Litchfield, Maine. One child died in infancy. He had two adopted daughters.
