Peter Hood Ballantine Cumming Explained

Peter Hood Ballantine Cumming (August 1, 1910 – November 16, 1988) was an executive in several firms and served as Mayor of Rumson, New Jersey from 1950 to 1951.

Personal life

He was born on August 1, 1910. He was the great-grandson of Peter Ballantine. Cumming was the son of Robert W. Cumming. He attended St. Mark's School^[1] and then Princeton University where he was on the rowing team^[2] and the sailing team.^[3] He married Dorothy Classen, daughter of Henry Washington Classon. They had three daughters, Dorothy, Diane, and Susan.^[4]

He died of cancer on November 16, 1988 in Little Silver, New Jersey.

Career

He was Mayor of Rumson, New Jersey from 1950 to 1951.^[5] In 1953 he was president of the Rumson Improvement Association.^[6] In 1959 he became the director of new business and public relations at H.A. Caesar & Company.^[7]

In 1966 he left H.A. Caesar & Company to join the Textile Banking Company.^[8] He was president of the Textile Banking Company from 1966 until 1968.^[9] He then became an executive of the Iselin-Jefferson Financial Company, a subsidiary of Dan River Mills.^[10] He was president of the Textile Banking Company, a vice president and director of the Iselin-Jefferson Financial Company, and a general partner in H. A. Caesar & Company, a factoring business in Manhattan. He was executive vice president and manager of marketing at J. P. Maguire.^[11]

Notes and References

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2. Book: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall . Thomas Corwin Mendenhall . A Short History of American Rowing . 1980 . 9780891820284.
3. Name Tiger Skippers, The Courier-News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) 7 Jun 1933, page 17, accessed December 23, 2017 at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15951610/name_tiger_skippers_the_couriernews/
4. Dorothy Classen Cumming, Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, New Jersey) 14 Aug 2002, page B6, accessed December 23, 2017 at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15951419/dorothy_classen_cumming_asbury_park/
5. Book: Randall Gabrielan . Rumson: Shaping a Superlative Suburb. May 2003. 9780738523989.
6. Charity Drifes Unified, Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, New Jersey) 16 Apr 1953, p15, accessed December 23, 2017 at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15951638/charity_drifes_unified_asbury_park/
7. News: Broiler Industry . National Poultry Digest . 1959 .
8. News: Princeton Club of New York . . 1966 .
9. TBC, The Courier-News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) 18 Sep 1968, page 19, accessed December 23, 2017 at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15951660/tbc_the_couriernews_bridgewater_new/
10. Subsidiary Names Small as Chairman, The Greenville News, (Greenville, South Carolina) 14 Jan 1970, page 11, accessed December 23, 2017 at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15951694/
11. News: Peter H. B. Cumming, 78, Retired Executive . . November 18, 1988. 2008-06-29 .