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Like most success stories, the history of Cummins Engine Company, started from humble beginnings and a perseverance to try something new.
Clessie cummins family history
The early days of Cummins Engines were not like what we have all come to expect from the power generation giant of today. In fact the company almost folded a few years after its start.
Cummins Inc. was found in by Clessie Cummins in Columbus, Indiana.
Clessie Cummins was no business genius; just a man with a vision and gumption to put in some hard work which would later be synonymous with his diesel engines. Clessie was born December 27, in rural Indiana, had no formal education beyond the eighth grade and had to leave to school to work on the family farm.
Clessie was always very mechanical inclined and as legend has it, at 11 years old, he built his own steam engine from molten cast iron he poured into wooden molds. The steam engine worked and w