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Curtiss, Mrs. Abbey – Cushman, John Paine

Curtiss, Mrs. Abbey

poet, was born Sept. 15, 1820, in Pomfret, Conn. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Home Ballads.

Curtiss, Marilla S

poet, was born May 27, 1822, in Oswego, N. Y. Her poems have appeared in the leading newspapers and magazines of America, and have been a valuable acquisition to current literature.

Curtiss, Romaine J

physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 1, 1840, in Richland county, Ohio. He has been professor of bacteriology, hygiene and general pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. He has attained eminent success as a physician and surgeon at Joliet, Ill., where he is surgeon in charge of St. Joseph's hospital; health commissioner; and surgeon to the Joliet Steel company.

Curwen, Samuel

author, was born in 1715, in Massachusetts. He was a loyalist who lived in England during the American revolution, but returned after its close to his native town of Salem.

While an exile he kept a journal which contains much valuable information concerning loyalist exiles. It was first published in 1842, with the title Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, an American Refugee in England, 1775-1784. He died in 1802.

Cusack, Mary E

philanthropist, was born in 1830. She is known as The Nun of Kenmare.

Cushing, Frank Hamilton

ethnologist, author, was born July 22, 1857, in Northeast, Pa. He was curator of the entire Indian collection of the National museum for the centennial exposition at Philadelphia. In 1879 he was assistant ethnologist of the United States bureau of ethnology of the Smithsonian institution.

Cushing, Jonathan Peter

educator, college president, was born March 12, 1793, in Rochester, N. H. He became a tutor in Hampden Sydney college in 1818, and professor of chemistry and natural philosophy two years later. This chair he held for two years, when he became the president of the college. He died April 25, 1835, in Raleigh, N. C.

Cushing, Thomas

patriot, was born March 24, 1725, in Boston, Mass. He was so prominent a member of the colonial congress that he was regarded in Great Britain as one of the leaders of sedition.

He died Feb. 28, 1788, in Boston, Mass.

Cushing, Thomas Humphrey

soldier, was born in 1755. He served during the revolutionary war, beginning as a sergeant; was in Arnold's naval battle on Lake Champlain, and for his bravery was successively advanced until in 1812 he had reached a brigadier-generalship. He died Oct. 19, 1822, in New London, Conn.

Cushing, Thomas Parkman

merchant, was born in 1787, in Ashburnham, Mass. He was a successful merchant and philanthropist of Boston, Mass. He died Nov. 23, 1854, in Boston, Mass.

Cushing, William

lawyer, jurist, was born March 1, 1732, in Scituate, Mass.

In 1772 he became judge of the superior court of Massachusetts; in 1777 was promoted to chief judge; and in 1789 was appointed, by President Washington, a justice of the supreme court of the United States, in which position he continued until his death. He died Sept. 13, 1810, in Scituate, Mass.

Cushman, John Paine

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1784, in Pomfret, Conn. He served in congress from New York from 1817 to 1819; and in 1838 was appointed judge of the circuit court, having previously been recorder of the city of Troy, and one of the regents of the state university. He died Sept. 16, 1848, in Troy, N. Y.