Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Cummingham, Matthew G. January 3, 1832 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 329
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Matthew G Cunningham, farmer of Lower Tyrone township, 
is the son of Joseph Cunningham and Jane Gaut Cunningham, 
both natives of Tyrone township, Fayette county, Penna.
    His father, Joseph Cunningham, was a farmer is what is 
now Lower Tyrone. He was born March 22, 1801, in Fayette 
county, Penna, and died April 8, 1877, aged seventy six 
years.  He was a democrat and held offices of county 
commissioner from 1851 to 1853, school director and justice 
of the peace of his township.  He was a prominent man in his 
time and well liked by all who knew him.  He attended to a 
great deal of business as administrator and executor of 
estates in this county.  
    He was a member of the Tyrone Presbyterian church, and a 
ruling elder of the same for thirty years.  In 1827 he 
married Miss Jane Gaut, who survived him nearly nine years, 
and died January 30, 1886, in her eightieth year.  She was 
the daughter of Matthew Gaut, better known as Squire Gaut, a 
farmer of Tyrone township and for many years a justice of 
the peace.
    Matthew G Cunningham was born January 3, 1832, in what 
is now Lower Tyrone township, Fayette county, Penna.  He was 
brought up on the farm, and has continued to follow farming 
all his life.  He got his education in the common schools, 
and now resides on the farm formerly owned by his father, 
situated two miles northwest of Dawson on the Dawson and 
Tyrone Mills Road, and contains one hundred acres of good, 
well improved land.
    He was married September 25, 1856, to Miss Lydia 
Newcomer, daughter of Christian Newcomer, a farmer of Tyrone 
township; the latter died April 25, 1855, at the age of 
sixty five.  Of this marriage there are now living eight 
children: Charles B Cunningham, William D Cunningham, Joseph 
B Cunningham, Herman R Cunningham, Judson J Cunningham, 
David O Cunningham, Harry G Cunningham, Clayton C 
Cunningham; Charles B Cunningham is now engaged in the 
lumber business in Scott Haven, Allegheny county; William D 
Cunningham is the principal of the West Newton school; and 
the rest are all at home.  
    Matthew G Cunningham is one of the best citizens of 
Lower Tyrone, and has always lead a quiet, honorable life.  

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