1800 - 1868 Person Name: R. W. Cushman Author of "O why, ye redeemed, should the breath of the tomb" 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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