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[No Headline] The Baltimore Sun, (Baltimore, Maryland) 10 Sep 1933, section 2 page 11, accessed December 23, 2017 at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15950531/no_headline_the_baltimore_sun/ and then Princeton University where he was on the rowing team and the sailing team.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/ He married Dorothy Classen, daughter of Henry Washington Classon. They had three daughters, Dorothy, Diane, and Susan.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/
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. In 1953 he was president of the Rumson Improvement Association.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/ In 1959 he became the director of new business and public relations at H.A. Caesar & Company.
In 1966 he left H.A. Caesar & Company to join the Textile Banking Company. He was president of the Textile Banking Company from 1966 until 1968.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/ He then became an executive of the Iselin-Jefferson Financial Company, a subsidiary of Dan River Mills.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/ 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.
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