History of Lunenburg, (Worcester County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Edmund Lambert Cushing, jurist, was born in Lunenburg, Mass., May 3, 1807; son of Edmund and Molly (Stearns) Cushing; grandson of Charles and Hannah Cushing; great-grandson of Jacob and Mary Cushing; great great grandson of Matthew and Deborah (Jacob) Cushing; great great great grandson of John and Sarah (Hawke) Cashing; and great great great great grandson of Matthew and Nazareth (Pitcher) Cushing, who emigrated from Hingham, England, to Hingham, Mass., in 1638. He was graduated at Harvard in 1827, remained there as tutor, 1828-29, and in 1834 was admitted to the bar. He practised in Massachusetts until 1840, wheh he removed to Charlestown, N.H. He soon became prominent in local affairs and was chosen representative in the state legislature in 1850, 1852 and 1853. In 1855 he was appointed a circuit justice of the court of common pleas. On the abolition of this office he declined a judgeship in the new court of common pleas. In 1874 he was made chief justice of the supreme judicial court of New Hampshire, which office he retained for two years. He was married in 1835 to Laura E., daughter of Vryling Lovell of Charlestown, N.H. His second wife was Martha R., daughter of Capt. James Gilchrist of Chariestown. In 1875 Harvard college conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. He edited the fifth edition of Luther Stearns Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice with original notes (1874). He died in Charlestown, N.H., June 4, 1883.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Luther Stearns Cushing, jurist, was born in Lunenburg, Mass., June 22, 1808; son of Edmund Cushing, governor's counsellot in 1825, and justice of the court of sessions; and younger brother of Judge Edmund Lambert Cushing. He was graduated at the Harvard law school in 1826; was associated with Charles Sumner and George S. Hilliard in the editorship of the American Jurist and Law Magazine, 1826-32, and was clerk of the Massachusetts house of representatives, 1832-44. He was elected a representative to the general court in 1814; was judge of the court of common pleas of Boston, 1844-48; and reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the commonwealth, 1850-56. He was lecturer in Harvard college law school, 1848-51, and was the leading editor for some years of the Jurist and Law Magazine. He published, besides several translations of foreign law books, Treatise on Trustee Process (1837); Treatise on Remedial Law (1837); Manual of Parliamentary Practice (1844); Reports of Controverted Election Cases in Massachusetts (1852); Introduction to the Study of Roman Civil Law (1854); Lex Parliamentaria Americana (1856); and volumes LV. to LXIV. of Decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1850-56). He died in Boston, Mass., June 22, 1856.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor