Mary Cummings
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Mary Phelps Cowles (Hall) Cummings (August 5, 1839 in Elyria, Ohio – December 23, 1927) was the eldest daughter of Reverend John P. Cowles and Eunice Caldwell Cowles; he was a professor of Greek, Latin, Syriac, French, German, and Italian. at Oberlin College; she was the first principal of Wheaton Female Seminary, now Wheaton College.
In 1844 she and her family moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts where she was educated in the Ipswich Female Academy which was reopened by her parents.
On November 21, 1864 Mary married Dr. Adino Brackett Hall, a prominent Boston physician. In 1880, Dr. Hall died.
On September 1, 1881 Marry Cummings married John Cummings, he owned a farm and tannery in Woburn, Massachusetts and served in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Senate. John Cummings died in 1898.
Mary Cummings died on December 23, 1927 leaving her 236 acre estate along with a substantial fund, in trust, to the City of Boston for use as a recreational park for the public, now known as Mary Cummings Park.
