George Wesley Dutcher was farming his own land in 1880 Michigan, along with his wife Jennie and their sons Claude 3 years old and Clarence,who had just been born in April.
	Claud Madison Dutcher served his country during the Spanish American War. After the war, like his father, worked his own farm, along with his family. He would load the vegetables that they grew, onto the wagon, and he and his daughters, Vivian Grace and Daisy Alice would go into town, Clio, Michigan, and sell them door to door.(pictured Claud with Daisy)
In those days the women were expected to work too.Besides working the farm Claud's wife Ella Loraine Pringle taught her daughters to fish for supper with a simple cane pole down to the crick.
	Claud's wife, Ella, passed away while the girls were still quite young. He realized he would need help raising them, he moved to the city and hired a nanny "Bertha Louisa Spears"(Pictured Bertha on left with freind Eunice). He and Bertha fell in love and were married.
After working his own farm, he didn't want to work for someone else, so he started his own business hanging wallpaper.
	Now living in the big city, during the roaring 20's, Daisy Alice Dutcher met a dashing young man visiting from New York, Cortez Henry Cummings. Eventually they eloped, and moved to Detroit, Michigan. During prohibition, they and their friends made beer in their bathtubs.
In Flint, Mich. Cortez ("Cortis") Cummings worked in the Buick plant "the Buick" during the riotous union strikes and during the Great Depression.His interest in the new fangled radio sets gave him an opportunity to start his own business.
	In order to make his business work, the family lived behind the shop, by this time, their family, was complete with two daughters Bertha Claudia and Patricia Ann and two sons Cortez Henry Jr.(Junior) and Franklin James. (pictured Pearl Cummings(Cortez's Stepmother), Patricia Ann and Junior)
Fixing peoples radio sets in those days presented a problem because most of the stations had weak signals, Cortis would have to make his service calls in the evening when the atmosphere allowed Los Angeles Radio station KFI (still one of the strongest in the country) to travel to Michigan.
	At least Good help was easy to find during the depression.
Cortez and Daisy's first son Cortez Henry Cummings Jr. served in the US Navy for 23 years with a brief stint at the Chevy plant in Van Nuys, California.
	Cortezs' ("Hank") first job in the navy was as a fireman below decks, he changed to interior communications after 4 years.
Franklin James Cummings was Cortis and Daisy's second son. He worked as a Machinist, he was of course the best in the shop. He worked nights, so during the day he was available to take care of kids which he did by teaching Bible school and Auto shop.
	When Hank Cummings retired from the Navy, he like his father and grandfather before him, started his own company. As a construction electrician, he took Cummings Electric from installing a plug for a lady's vacuum in her hallway, to large projects at Sea World, San Diego.
	Lawrence Paul Bergeron, first son of Patrica Ann Cummings, served in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War, in Holland. Today he runs his own landscaping business in California.
Patricia Ann's son Randall McKay Cummings did his duty in the US Air Force during the cold war under Reagan. He served in the U.K. during the Falklands War.
	Hank had taught Randy the electrical trade, so when the time came, he became owner of Cummings Electric.
Randy and his wife Leilani's son Brian Andrew Cummings served as a distinguished member of the US Army. Brian spent his tenure in Washington D.C.. At Arlington National Cemetery he helped to lead the nation in remembering our fallen heros and lay to rest those who had served. His hard work led him to be chosen as a member of the elite US Army Drill Team.
	It was only natural that with his duty to his country complete, Brian would return to the family business.
As a forth generation electrician and a descendant of at least 5 generations of entrepreneurial sprit, it is yet to be seen where the Cummings name will go.