Douglas County NeArchives Obituaries.....Cumming, Thomas B March 23, 1858
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Nebraska Advertiser Thur Apr 1, 1858

    Death of Gov. Cumming

  It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of
Hon. Thomas B. Cumming, Secretary of Nebraska, and acting
Governor (Governor Richardon being absent in Illinois.)
He died at his residence in Omaha City, on Thursday
March 23d.
   It affords us pleasure to say in regard to the late
Gov. Cumming, that from a intimate aquaintance of two
years with him, we have rarely met with a man of more
brillian intellect, naturaly qualifications for official
positions, sociability, benevolence, generosity and
goodness of heart. That he had faults none will deny--
and who has them not? Not one! He is gone, however, let
his errors be buried with him, but his virtues imitated;
for he had those worthy of imitation. His generous
and benevolent impulses, if possible, almost amounted to
a fault. His native talents, acquirements, and general
knowledge of public affairs, had few, if any superiors
in the West.
   His wife--a most accomplished lady, indeed--mourns the
loss of a most kind and affectionate husband. She has
the heartfelt sympathies of all who had the good fortune
to know them both.
  Our Omaha correspondent "Wawkee," in another column,
gives a condensed history of Governor Cumming, since
his arrival in this Territory, and also an accounty of 
the funeral obseques of the 24th at the Capital.

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