Courtland Cushing
Courtland Cushing | |
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Chargé d'Affaires to Ecuador | |
In office June 3, 1851 – October 12, 1853 | |
President | Millard Fillmore |
Preceded by | John Trumbull Van Alen |
Succeeded by | Philo White |
Personal details | |
Born | Warren County, Ohio | July 1, 1809
Died | May 24, 1856 Isthmus of Panama | (aged 46)
Spouse(s) |
Sarah Ross
(m. 1833; died 1843)Margaret Hutton
(m. 1847; died 1848) |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) | Daniel Lewis Cushing Margaret Van Horne Cushing |
Alma mater | Miami University |
Courtland Cushing (July 1, 1809 – May 24, 1856) was an American lawyer, judge, and diplomat.
Early life
Cushing, who was born on July 1, 1809, in
His paternal grandparents were Hannah (née Lewis) Cushing and Theophilus Cushing and his maternal grandparents were Lavinia (née Budd) Van Horne and William Van Horne, brigade chaplain in the Continental Army.[3]
Cushing graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1829.[4]
Career
Cushing was admitted to the bar in Warren County, Ohio. Shortly before his marriage in 1833, he moved to
In 1844, the Indiana Senate[11] elected Cushing to serve for a term of seven years "from and after the eighteenth day of December, A. D., 1844" as President Judge of the third Circuit Court[2] to succeed Judge Miles C. Eggleston. Reportedly, Cushing "had respectable talents, was very dressy and quite a beau among the ladies."[10] Cushing resigned on August 9, 1850, and was succeeded by Alexander C. Downey who served until the adoption of a new Constitution in 1852.[12]
Chargé d'Affaires to Ecuador
On September 28, 1850, he was appointed
In 1852, Cushing wrote to then
Later career
After serving his term, he began working as an agent for Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company until his death in 1856 on the Isthmus of Panama,[21] the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America that contains the country of Panama.[10]
Personal life
On October 16, 1833, Cushing was married to Sarah Ross (d. 1843), daughter of Phineas Ross of Warren County. Together, they were the parents of:[2]
- Mary Cushing (1834–1867), who married Eben Hall (1818–1871).[2]
- Sarah Corwin Cushing (b. 1837), who worked as a private secretary to Cushing's friend,
- Daniel H. Cushing (b. 1841), who became Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Clark County, Ohio.[24]
After the death of his first wife, he remarried in 1847 to Margaret Hutton of
Cushing died on May 24, 1856, on the Isthmus of Panama and was buried at Puntas Arenas in Nicaragua.[2]
Descendants
Through his daughter Mary, he was the grandfather of four granddaughters, including Norah Hall, Mary Hall (who died in infancy), Sallie Hall (wife of John D. Ryan of Louisville, Kentucky) and Anna Hall (wife of Dr. John Wilber Hulick of Springfield, Ohio).[2]
See also
References
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