Cushing, Luther Stearns – Cuthbert, John A
Cushing, Luther Stearns
lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 22, 1803, in Lunenburg, Mass. He was a well-known authority on parliamentary practice and a Massachusetts jurist who was lecturer on Roman law in Harvard university in 1848-56. He was the author of Massachusetts Reports, 1848-53; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Trustee Process; Remedial Law; Reports of Controverted Election Cases in Massachusetts: Introduction to the study of Roman Civil Law; Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States; Lex Parliamentaria Americana; and Rules of Proceeding and Debates in the Deliberative Assemblies. He died June 22, 1856, in Boston, Mass.
Cushing, Richardson Ernest
educator, librarian, was born Feb. 9, 1857.
He graduated from Amherst college in 1880; and subsequently from the Hartford Theological seminary. He is engaged in educational work, and fills a chair in the Hartford Theological seminary. is also librarian of the Princeton university, New Jersey. He
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.
Cushing, William
author, was born May 15, 1811, in Lunenburg, Mass. He went to Cambridge in 1868, became library assistant in the Harvard library, and since 1878 was engaged in literary pursuits. His published books are Index to the North American Review: Index to the Christian Examiner; Initials and Pseudonyms; and Anonyms. He died in 1895.
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders
actress, was born July 23, 1816, in Boston, Mass. She is generally admitted to be the greatest of American actresses and readers, and by her stainless life, worked for the elevation of the stage. Her farewell to the stage was a great ovation, and she received from the noble and venerable poet Bryant, a laurel crown. She died Feb. 18, 1876, in Boston, 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.
Cushman, Joshua
state senator, congressman, was born in Plymouth, Mass. He was a state senator in 1809, 1810, 1819 and 1820, and a member of the assembly in 1811 and 1834. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1819 to 1821; and represented Maine in congress from 1821 to 1825, after its separation from Massachusetts. He died in 1834.
Cushman, Pauline
actress, spy, was born June 10, 1833, in New Orleans, La. She was employed by the government as a detective to discover the southern sympathizers and spies in Louisville, and their methods of conveying information and medical supplies across the lines, and frequently also as a scout.
Cushman, Samuel
jurist, congressman, was born in 1783. He was judge of the police court of Portsmouth, N. H.; held several offices of trust in the state, such as councilor from 1833 to 1835, county treasurer from 1823 to 1828, and navy agent at Portsmouth from 1845 to 1849.
He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1835 to 1839. He died May 20, 1851, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Cushman, Seth Leonard
banker, was born Aug. 13, 1849, in Taunton, Mass.
For many years he served as a bookkeeper in a large mercantile house. He then entered the banking business, and since-1877 has been president of the Bristol county National bank of Taunton, Mass.
Cussons, John
explorer, journalist, author, was born April 6, 1837, in Horncastle, England. He came to Virginia in April, 1861, as lieutenant in the governor's guard, fourth Alabama regiment.
He scouted for Gen.
Bernard until the death of that officer.
He was then assigned to scouting by Gen. Whiting until appointed on the staff of Gen. Law, at the battle of Seven Pines; and served with distinction throughout the war. He is an honored member of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce; member of the history committee; grand commander of the confederate veterans of Virginia; and founder of Glen Allen, near Richmond, Va., where he has a beautiful country seat called Forest Lodge.
Custer, Mrs. Elizabeth
author, was born in Monroe, Mich., and was the wife of the late Gen. George A. Custer.
She is the author of Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer; Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer in Kansas and Texas; and Following the Guidon.
Custer, George Armstrong
general, author, was born Dec. 5, 1839, in New Rumley, Ohio. He was a famous general in the federal army during the civil war, who afterwards became noted in campaigns against the Indians, and was killed with his entire command in a battle with the Sioux in the Black Hills.
My Life on the Plains was his only publication. He died June 25, 1876, in Montana. Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, his wife, is a noted author.
Custer, Thomas Ward
soldier, was born March 15, 1845, in New Rumley, Ohio. He enlisted as a private in an Ohio regiment, and served in the west until he was made aide-de-camp on his brother's staff, then with the army of the Potomac.
He died June 25, 1876, in Montana.
CUSTIS, GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKE, author, was born April 30, 1781, in Mount Airy, Md. He was an adopted son of General Washington; and the author of Recollections of Washington. He died Oct. 10, 1857, in Arlington House, Va.
Custis, J. B. Gregg
homœopathic physician, was born Sept. 20, 1855, in Wilmington, Del. He spent his youth in New Jersey and there attended private schools.
In 1875 he graduated from the Columbian university of Washington, D. C., with the degree of A. B.; and in 1878 from the Homœopathic Medical college and hospital.
He has been professor of obstetrics in the Southern Homœopathic Medical college of Baltimore; president of the Alumni association of the New York Homœopathic Medical college and hospital; president of the homœopathic board of medical examiners of Washington, D.
C., and is now president of the American , and is now president of the American Institute of Homœopathy in that city.
Cutbush, James
chemist, educator, author, was born in Pennsylvania. He was professor of chemistry at West Point.
He published the Useful Cabinet, 1808; Philosophy of Experimental Chemistry; and Treatise on Pyrotechnics. He died Dec. 15, 1823, in West Point, N. Y.
Cutcheon, Byron M
was born May 11, 1836, in Pembroke, N. H. He served in the civil war; was assigned to the command of the second brigade, first division, ninth army corps, army of the Potomac, in 1864; and was mustered out in 1865. He was a member of the board of control of railroads of Michigan in 1866-83; was presidential elector in 1868; was city attorney in 1870-71; was county attorney in 1873-74; was regent of the Michigan university in 1875-83; was postmaster at Manistee City in 1877-83; and was elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, and fiftieth congresses, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
During 1895-96 he was an editorial writer on the Detroit Daily Tribune; and since 1896 he has practiced law in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Cuthbert, Alfred
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born about 1781, in Savannah, Ga. He was first elected to the state legislature, then a representative from Georgia in the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses, serving till 1816, when he resigned. He was again elected to the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth congresses, serving from 1821 till 1827.
He was elected United States senator from Georgia to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected for a full term, serving from 1835 till 1843. He died July 9, 1856, near Monticello, Ga.
Cuthbert, James Hazard
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 13, 1823, in , author, was born Dec. 13, 1823, in Beaufort, S.
C. He is a baptist clergyman of Washington; and the author of Our Mission as Baptists; and Life of Richard Fuller.
Cuthbert, John A
congressman, was born June 3, 1788, in Savannah, Ga.
He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1818 to 1821; and was appointed in 1822 a commissioner to treat with the Creek and Cherokee Indians. He died Sept. 22, 1881, in Mobile. Ala.