Augustus N. Summers was born at Shelby, Richland County, Ohio.

He graduated from Wittenberg College, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi,[1] in 1879, and began study of law in Springfield, being admitted to the bar in 1881.

[2] Summers served as a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1904 to 1911.

[3] Following his electoral defeat in 1910, Summers returned to private practice in Springfield with his partner, George A.

He died in Springfield May 21, 1927, after a lengthy illness, and is interred in Ferncliff cemetery.