This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nottingham, Cummins, Howell, Curry Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hFB.2ACE/933 Message Board Post: >From 1905 Michigan Manual, Page 765 DAVID M. NOTTINGHAM, Representative from the first district of Ingham county, was born January 5, 1855, in Marion, Indiana, of French and English parents. He lived on a farm until sixteen years of age. He taught school, attended college, and worked at the harness trade until he attained the age of twenty-three. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, Ill., in 1881, and practiced three years in Bronson, Branch county, Michigan. In 1884 he commenced the practice of medicine at Lansing, where he has since practiced. He was a member of the common council of Lansing for two years. He has been city health officer and at present is a member of the board of education. Mr. Nottingham is a Republican, and was elected to the house of 1903-4 and reelected November 8, 1904, by a vote of 3,841 to 2,764 for Alva M. Cummins, 153 for Alfred A. Howell and 85 for Seneca R. Curry.