Charles Cushing was born on May 1, 1848, in Chatham, Quebec.
He was a notary, serving in Montreal, Quebec from 1869 to 1910. He was a brother of military and businessman James Brock Cushing (1839-1903).
In 1883, he married Lily Margaret Macaulay (1864–1936). He died on September 30, 1910, in Montreal, Quebec.
Ellen Myra MacDougall was born in Quebec in 1849. In 1869, she married Lemuel Cushing Jr., a Montreal lawyer who was briefly a member of the House of Commons of Canada. She died in 1931 in Quebec.
Harvey Cushing was born on April 8, 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the youngest child of Henry Kirke Cushing, physician, and Betsey Maria Williams. In 1902, he married Katharine Stone Crowell with whom he had five children : William Harvey, Mary Benedict, Betsey, Henry Kirke and Barbara. His primary and secondary education was in Cleveland. He received his A.B. at Yale University in 1891, and his M.A., M.D., at Harvard University in 1895. He died on October 7, 1939 in New Haven, Connecticut. Harvey Cushing began his career at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1895-96. He moved to Baltimore to work at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where he stayed for 15 years, mostly at the Faculty of Surgery. In 1912, he returned to Harvard as Professor of Surgery and also worked at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (1913-1932). In 1933, he became Professor of Neurology at Yale, a position he held until 1937. Considered a pioneer of Neurosurgery, he made several fundamental discoveries about the pituitary gland. Bibliophile and an earnest collector of books, he published many essays and other literary works, among them the 1926 Pulitzer prize-winning biography of William Osler.
Lieut.-Col. James Brock Cushing was born on October 2, 1939, in Chatham, Argenteuil, Quebec.
He was a businessman, well-known also in military circles. He commanded the 11th Argenteuil Rangers when they won the Sir Leonard A. Smith's cup for the most efficient country battalion. He was a brother of notary Charles Cushing (1848-1910).
In 1869, he married Elizabeth Titcombe Hill (1841–1905). He died on October 22, 1903, in Chatham, Argenteuil, Quebec.
Lemuel Cushing Jr. was born on February 18, 1842, in Chatham, Argenteuil, Quebec.
He was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He studied law at McGill University and in 1865, he was admitted to the bar of the Province of Quebec. In politics, he was a Liberal and he represented the County of Argenteuil, Quebec, in the Dominion Parliaments. He took a keen interest in all athletic sports. He was President of the Montreal Lacrosse Club and one of the original members of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. He also took an active part in church and religious work, particularly of the Young Men's Christian Association of which he was at one time, President. He published the first Genealogy of the Cushing Family in 1877.
In 1869, he married Ellen Myra MacDougall (1849–1931). He died on March 1, 1881, in Montreal, Quebec.
Marshall B. Cushman, an 1861 graduate of Amherst College, devoted more than five decades to service at the United States Patent Office in Washington, D.C., where he worked as an examiner from 1863 to 1915.
