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Peter Hood Ballantine Cumming

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Peter Hood Ballantine Cumming (August 1, 1910 – November 16, 1988) was Mayor of Rumson, New Jersey from 1950 to 1951. 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.[1]

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[2] and then Princeton University where he was on the rowing team[3] and the sailing team.[4] He married Dorothy Classen, daughter of Henry Washington Classon. They had three daughters, Dorothy, Diane, and Susan.[5]

He died of cancer on November 16, 1988 in Little Silver, New Jersey.[1]

Career

He was Mayor of Rumson, New Jersey from 1950 to 1951.[6][1] In 1953 he was president of the Runson Improvement Association.[7] In 1959 he became the director of new business and public relations at H.A. Caesar & Company.[8]

In 1966 he left H.A. Caesar & Company to join the Textile Banking Company.[9] He was president of the Textile Banking Company from 1966 until 1968.[10] He then became an executive of the Iselin-Jefferson Financial Company, a subsidiary of Dan River Mills.[11]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Peter H. B. Cumming, 78, Retired Executive". New York Times. November 18, 1988. Retrieved 2008-06-29. Peter Hood Ballantine Cumming, a retired executive and former mayor of Rumson, N.J., died of cancer Wednesday at his home in Little Silver, N.J. He was 78 years old.
  2. [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/
  3. Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1980). A Short History of American Rowing. Search this book on
  4. 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/
  5. 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/
  6. Randall Gabrielan. Rumson: Shaping a Superlative Suburb. Search this book on
  7. 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/
  8. "Broiler Industry". National Poultry Digest. 1959.
  9. "Princeton Club of New York". Princeton Alumni Weekly.
  10. 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/
  11. 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/



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