D. C. CUMMINGS: JR,
Clerk of the county court of Washington county, was born in this
county at Abingdon, on June 23, 1861. He is the son of Col.
David Campbell Cummings, who was clerk of circuit court at
Abingdon, 1866-70, whose father was James Cummings, son
of Rev. Charles Cummings, who came from Scotland to Virginia
at an early day, and took charge of the Presbyterian church,
at Abingdon and other places. The mother of D. C. is Eliza, daughter
of James L. White of Abingdon, and granddaughter of Col. James White,
who came to Washington county about the beginning of the present
century, and amassed a fortune in the mercantile business, and as a
manufacturer of salt. From April, 1882, to July 1, 1887, D. C. Cummings,
jr. was deputy county clerk for Washington county. Since the
last-named date he has been filling his present office, to which he was
elected by the largest majority ever given to a candidate in Washington
county.
