Cumming, Hooper

  • Posted on: 2 October 2015
  • By: khughes
Primary Name
Prefix or Title: 
Rev.
First Name: 
Hooper
Surname: 
Cumming
Alternate Names
Nickname: 
Mr. Hooper Cummings
Birth and Death
Birth Info
Birth Date Prefix: 
c.
Birth Year: 
1787
Birth Note: 
Find-A-Grave says 1788.
Citation for Birth Info: 
Citation Notes: 
http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/reverend-hooper-cumming-1787-1825
Death Info
Death Date Prefix: 
Peoples Press Newspaper obituary lists Jan. 7, 1826.
Death Month: 
December
Death Day: 
18
Death Year: 
1825
Death Note: 
Charleston, S.C.
Citation for Death Info: 
Citation Notes: 
https://books.google.com/books?id=f6g8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=rev.+hooper+cumming+death+1825&source=bl&ots=RsXk1ne8QM&sig=QTJOprMKRUoGISMg4YcONcYC8Zc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAmoVChMIs--zn4CkyAIVBnQ-Ch2mPgTt#v=onepage&q=rev.%20hooper%20cumming%20death%201825&f=false
Relationships
Marriage Information: 
Marriage and Children Info
Biographical Information
Seward Context: 
Official/Professional
Profession: 
Reverend
Biography and Citation Information: 
Biography: 
From McClintock's Biblical Cyclopaedia: "Hooper Cumming, D.D., a Presbyterian Minister, was born in New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton College in 1805, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1810; was ordained in 1811; preached in the Second Presbyterian Church of Newark, N.J., from 1811 to 1814; at Schenectady, N.Y., from 1815 to 1817; in the Third Presbyterian Church, Albany, from 1817 to 1822; and in the Vandewater-street Church, New York city, in 1822 and 1823. He went to Charleston, S.C., in 1824, and died there, Dec. 18, 1825." Cumming married at least once. Only a few days after the marriage, his wife fell to her death at Passiac Falls. The famous lawyer Hooper Cumming Van Vorst (1817-1889) was named after the Rev. Hooper Cumming--his father, John Van Vorst, bestowed the namein honor of the "eloquent preacher".
Citation Notes: 
https://books.google.com/books?id=f6g8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=rev.+hooper+cumming+death+1825&source=bl&ots=RsXk1ne8QM&sig=QTJOprMKRUoGISMg4YcONcYC8Zc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAmoVChMIs--zn4CkyAIVBnQ-Ch2mPgTt#v=onepage&q=rev.%20hooper%20cumming%20death%201825&f=false
Biography: 
GWS encounters Rev. Hooper Cummings in 18250521GWS_WHS1. Geo says: "Where it not for that contempitable, irreligious and hateful vice, his words, his action, his prea- ching, would do good. I was much pleased, for I think he was sober. Mr Barnes says he is the best example of good speaking and Reading in the United States. But I think he is mis- taken, for I do not think he is." At the time, Geo is in New York City. I believe the aforementioned death date from McClintock to be incorrect--it is only reasonable that Geo heard Rev. Cumming speak at the Vandewater-street Church, which means that Rev. Cumming must not have yet left for S.C. Additionally, the Peoples Press Newspaper obituary lists Rev. Cumming's death date as Jan. 7, 1826, allowing him to possibly move to S.C. later than the May 1825 date Geo states he heard the reverend speak. Geo also alludes to a drinking problem; perhaps that was the cause of the Rev.'s move and early death.
Citation Notes: 
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34449695
Extra information from Google Docs spreadsheet
Citation for Marriage Info (old): 
Editorial Information
Editorial Review: 
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