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CORNELIUS EARLE RUMSEY, of S. S. Marvin & Co., Pittsburgh, is descended from early English residents of New York and New Jersey. Early in the present century, his grandfather, Cornelius Rumsey, moved from Dutchess county to Monroe county, N. Y., where he cleared up and improved a large farm. Thomas Osborne, son of the latter, went to New York city when a young man, and engaged in the sperm-oil trade. He purchased a farm in East Chester, N. Y., on which he lived, and then moved to New Rochelle, N. Y., where he died in 1850, aged forty years. His wife, Matilda, was a daughter of Cornelius Earle, of New York city. They had two sons and four daughters, Cornelius E. being the fourth child, born at East Chester, New York. In 1869 he came to Pittsburgh, having an interest in his present business in connection with Mr. Marvin, and is also interested in the Cleveland Baking company and Wheeling Bakery company. Mr. Rumsey has a farm in Washington county, on which he has fine-bred Holsteins and Jerseys. He is a director of the Western Pennsylvania Agricultural society, and life manager in the Western Pennsylvania hospital. He attends the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh and he is a republican. His wife, Mary Elizabeth, is the only daughter of Walter K. Marvin, of New York.