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Post by David Sechrest on Nov 7, 2006 14:32:59 GMT -5
Cummins Bookstore officially opened its doors (again) last Friday, November 3rd. The people who own the Yellowbrick Road business on the corner of Center and State Street (i.e., the old Jay-C, Storm Shash, Salvation Army building) took it over.
I wish the new owners lots of luck!
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Post by RER on Apr 3, 2007 12:44:55 GMT -5
Cummins Book Store406 Washington Street (1950s)  Source: Log 1958 Bob
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Nov 23, 2007 6:33:18 GMT -5
Reported in the Republic - 23 Nov 2007:
The owners of the Cummins Bookstore have closed it and are planning to relocate the business by Spring in another location using the same name. Randy and Anna Scudder and Stephanie Harman own the bookstore name and the contents. The building itself is owned by the Custer Foundation.
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Post by David Sechrest on May 20, 2011 18:54:37 GMT -5
I'm copying this post here as well, considering it relates to Cummins Bookstore. I hope someone may be able to help in this matter! I'd like to find more background on George Cummins' father -- James Wesley Cummins.
George was the owner of Cummins bookstore (see www.historiccolumbusindiana.org/gcummins.htm ). His father, James Wesley Cummins, was a carpenter who moved the family from Madison to Franklin and then to Columbus in the 1850s and 1860s. According to a Madison obituary of Vinton Matthews (another carpenter), [James] Wesley Cummins came to Mississippi and Arkansas in 1857 to build plantation houses, likely including the one I work at in 1858-1859-- the Lakeport Plantation in Arkansas. Lakeport.astate.edu
Several other carpenters are mentioned in the obit, including one who can be placed, in an independent source, building a nearby house.
www.mjcpl.org/historyrescue/records/obituaries-from-scrapbooks-1901-1908
I located a short obit for James Cummins in the Madison Courier (February 10, 1881) which led me to Columbus and George's bookstore.
If anyone is aware of any histories (unpublished or published) of the Cummins family or a local obit of James Wesley Cummins, I would greatly appreciate it.
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