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Short Name: Robert W. Cushman
Full Name: Cushman, Robert W., 1800-1868
Birth Year: 1800
Death Year: 1868

Cushman, Robert W. (Woolrich, Maine, April 10, 1800--April 7, 1868, Wakefield, Massachusetts). Baptist preacher and educator. Graduated Columbian College, Washington, D.C., 1825. Ordained as pastor of the Poughkeepsie, New York, Baptist Church in August, 1826. Established the Cushman Collegiate Institute, a school for young ladies, in Philadelphia in 1829. Pastor of Bowdoin Square Baptist Church, Boston, 1841-1847. Served as principal, Mount Vernon Ladies School, Boston, and taught at Newton Theological Institution. Three hymns by Dr. Cushman appeared in Baptist Harmony, 1834:

Oh why, ye redeemed, should the breath of the tomb
O thou whose wisdom gives a path
Lo! on a mount that Burma rears

The first of these was included in Cutting's Hymns for the Vestry, 1841, and Gillette's Hymns for Social Meetings, 1843.

--Cecil Roper, DNAH Archives


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