Cummings, Camille, 1900-1986

Camille Haynes was born in Livingstone, Montana, in 1900, the youngest daughter of Mame Nesbit and Irenus Haynes. When Camille was 13, the family moved to Berkeley, Calif., where she later graduated from the Univ. of California. After college, Camille worked as a reporter for the Oakland Enquirer. In 1924, she moved to Paris where she worked as a society reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the New York Herald. In 1928, she married Elliot Paul, an American expatriate writer and co-editor of Transition with Eugene Jolas. Camille worked as a secretary for Clifford B. Harmon of the League of International Aviators until 1934 when she divorced Paul. In 1936, she found a position in the American Consulate in Barcelona and met Andres Ferret, a physician, whom she married in the late thirties. They returned to the United States where he obtained his American M.D. from Johns Hopkins. They were divorced in 1946. In 1952, Camille married a friend and fellow graduate of the Univ. of California, Gale Cummings, and they moved to his ranch in Berthoud, Colorado where they raised sheep and dogs until her death in March 1986.

From the description of Camille Cummings papers, 1888-1984, (bulk) 1920-1965. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 213298804

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