List of people from Cumberland, Maryland
This is a list of people from Cumberland, Maryland:
- Robert Reinhard (born 1990) - Venerable leader and managing editor of Wake Forest sports blog Blogger So Dear and MBA candidate at Vanderbilt.[1]
- Frederick John Bahr (1837–1885) - immigrant from Baden, Germany; bought Wills Mountain, including the narrows and Lovers Leap, to avoid the encroachment of the Civil War, settled there with his family in a cabin on the top of the mountain
- Rob Breedlove (born 1938) - former football linebacker, played eight seasons in the National Football League with the Washington Redskins and the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1960-1967
- Earle Bruce - football player and coach
- Wright Butler - architect of Allegany Courthouse
- Kia Corthron (born 1961) - playwright, screenwriter; attended Allegany High School
- J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) - poet, writer, and professor for Stanford University; born in Cumberland[2]
- James Deetz (1930–2000) - father of historical archeology
- Eddie Deezen (born 1958) - comic actor
- Jane Frazier - lived in a log house built in 1754 just outside Cumberland; was captured by Indians; a Frazier family member wrote a book about the incident, Red Morning
- Patrick Hamill (1817–1895) - U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 4th District 1869-1871; buried in Odd Fellow's Cemetery
- Drew Hankinson (born 1983) - professional wrestler currently signed to WWE under the name of Luke Gallows
- Christopher Hastings (born 1983) - comic artist and creator of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, set in a fictional version of Cumberland[3]
- Tom Hull (born 1952) - former linebacker who played two seasons in the National Football League with the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers in 1974 and 1975
- Indian Will - well-known Native American who lived in a former settlement of the Shawnee Indians at the site of present-day Cumberland in the 18th century; namesake of Wills Creek and Wills Mountain
- William Harrison Lowdermilk (1839-1897) - Union soldier, printer, and newspaper publisher[4]
- William H. Macy (born 1950) - actor; attended Allegany High School, was junior and senior class president
- Samuel Magill - established the first newspaper in Cumberland, the Allegany Freeman, published weekly, 1813-1816[5]
- Mark Manges (born 1956) - quarterback for the University of Maryland, College Park (1974–77); appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated October 1976
- John Van Lear McMahon (1800–1871) - Maryland legislature and historian
- Kelly L. Moran (born 1960) - author of the book Shelley Chintz, 2001;[6] designer and builder of the Stone Cottage; attended Bruce High School
- Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818–1883) - born in Cumberland; designer of Fort Sam Houston; a U.S. Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War, the Indian Wars, and the American Civil War
- Sam Perlozzo (born 1951) - former Major League Baseball player; former manager of the Baltimore Orioles (2005–2007); attended Bishop Walsh High School
- Bruce Price (1845–1903) - architect of Cumberland Emmanuel Church
- Francis Xavier Seelos (1819–1867) - pastor of SS. Peter & Paul's Catholic Church, 1857–1862, beatified by the Vatican in 2000 (final stage of canonization process)
- Russell Shorto (born 1959) - author of The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America and Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
- Daniel Sollinger (born 1967) - film producer
- Casper R. Taylor, Jr (born 1934) - Member of House of Delegates, 1975–2003 - Speaker of the House, 1994–2003
- George L. Wellington (1852–1927) - United States Senator
- Steve Whiteman - singer of 80s metal band KIX
- Steve Trimble (May 11, 1958 – July 11, 2011) was an American football defensive back in the National Football League, the United States Football League, and the Arena Football League.
- William Doub (September 3, 1931 - February 21, 2015) - US Atomic Energy Commission Commissioner and prominent energy lawyer
References
- ↑ "Blogger So Dear". Blogger So Dear.
- ↑ Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, page 110
- ↑ Sims, Chris (August 15, 2012). "Christopher Hastings on 'The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Timefist' [Interview]". Comics Alliance. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
- ↑ Ames W. Williams. The W. H. Lowdermilk Company. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 51, [The 51st separately bound book] (1984), pp. 158-165. Published by: Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
- ↑ Lowdermilk, page 301
- ↑ ISBN 0-9676925-0-4
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