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Alma Carrie Cummings was born in Columbia, New Hampshire on March 21, 1857. She married Edwin S. Cummings when she was seventeen. They started a family, and he worked as a newspaper owner.
As her A Woman of the Century profile explains, once Edwin was proprietor of the News and Sentinel, Alma spent her days at the paper. When her husband passed away in 1887, Alma took over and became a very successful editor and proprietor.
Writing about Alma in 1895, the Essex County Herald of Guildhall, Vermont noted:
"We called on Mrs. Cummings of the News and Sentinel last Monday, and found her as usual driven with work. Besides her editorial work and printing business she finds time to do some very beautiful painting and embroidery."
By 1906, Alma's son Harry was part of the team at the Colebrook News and Sentinel.
That she continued her interests in both editorial and handwork is evident from her listings as "Editor and Conductor" in the 1910 census and "Dress Maker" in the 1920 census.
Alma passed away in Colebrook, New Hampshire on January 13, 1926, and was buried in Colebrook Village Cemetery.
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- Essex County herald. (Guildhall, Vt.), 28 June 1895. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023416/1895-06-28/ed-1/seq-3/>
- Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire; Roll: T624_861; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 0060; FHL microfilm: 1374874 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.
- Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire; Roll: T625_1007; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 46 Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).