====== Cumming, Donald ====== 
 (18 April 1844-7 May 1927), farmer, and his wife **Mary Jane Graham **(5 April 1850-5 Jan. 1916). Donald Cumming was born in Chateauguay County, Que. His parents were John Cumming and his wife Flora Hamilton. Donald Cumming in his earlier years was a farmer at Allen’s Corners (Allan’s Corners), near Ormstown, Que. Mary Jane Graham was born near Ormstown, Que. Before her marriage, she was a schoolteacher and taught in the area of Ormstown. Her parents were William Graham and his wife Janet Pringle, and Mary Jane married Donald Cumming about 1871. (ten children) In the winter or early spring of 1882, the Cummings family, which by this time included the earlier born of their children, moved to Lancaster, Ont., crossing the ice of Lake St. Francis with their cattle. They settled in GC on a farm on Lots 2 and 3 in the 3rd Concession of Charl.Township. Donald Cumming was an Ayshire breeder. He retired in 1915, at which time he divided his farm and herds between his sons Donald N. Cumming and Malcolm Cumming. At this time Donald N. kept the home farm and his brother Malcolm took a farm his family owned in the next concession. The herds were also divided but the two brothers agreed that the stock produced by the farm would be registered with the prefix Glengarry and were to be described as bred by Cumming Brothers of Glengarry Stock Farms. In 1943, Glengarry Sir Burton, formerly a Cumming Brothers herd sire, sold at Lima, Ohio, for $3600, an Ayrshire price unmatched since 1919. (//Glengarry News// 26 March 1943)

<tab>Mrs Mary Jane Cumming was associated with the Plymouth Brethren, and presumably so too was her husband. After his retirement, he did some lay preaching in Ontario and Manitoba. Mrs Cumming died at the home of her sister in Montreal. (children surviving her: 9) A collection of the poems of Mrs Cumming was published for circulation within the family (the daughter May taking the main role in publication) under the title //Poems of the Late Mrs M.J.G. Cumming// (n. d., no place of publication stated, but perhaps Alexandria). By the time the booklet was published, Donald had died at the home of his son, Malcolm Cumming. (children surviving him: 8). Mrs Cumming’s poem “The Pioneers of Glengarry” was reprinted in the 1984 Williamstown poetry volume, “//Under the Bridge”//, ed. R. Mowat, and in //Glengarry Life//,1991. Donald Cumming, one of GC’s most noted Ayrshire breeders, was also, in a role that attracted less attention, a breeder of Clydesdales.


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<fs small>Private information *obituary of Mrs Cumming (ND, //Cornwall Standard //or //Cornwall Freeholder//), Fraser //Obits.// 53; obituary of Donald Cumming, //Glengarry News// 20 May 1927 * Fraser, //Gravestones//, I, 265 (Grinley’s Cemetery) * Frank Napier, “The Cummings of Glengarry,” //Canadian Ayrshire Review// (Feb. 1975); includes material from “The Cummings of Glengarry” in the same periodical of April 1945. The 1945 material is reprinted in the //Standard Freeholder// 22 Sept. 1945 as part of a special supplement on the Ayrshires at Williamstown Fair.
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