Harvey Cushing

1869 - 1939  (70 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 22 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Harvey Cushing
  Relationship	with Francis Fox
  Born	8 Apr 1869	Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH
  Gender	Male
  Died	7 Oct 1939	Milford, NH, CT
  Person ID	I372576	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2002

  
  

  Father	Henry Kirke Cushing,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Betsey Maria Williams,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F147618	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katharine Stone Crowell
  Married	1902
  Children	+ 1. Betsey Cushing,   b. 18 May 1908, Baltimore ,   d. 25 Mar 1998  (Age 89 years) + 2. Babe Cushing,   b. 1915,   d. 1978  (Age 63 years)   3. Mary Benedict Cushing,   b. 1905,   d. 1978  (Age 73 years)   4. William Harvey Cushing,   d. 1926   5. Henry Kirke Cushing
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2002
  Family ID	F147606	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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. The Cushing family on the paternal side originated from Gravesend, England. Matthew Cushing, a deacon, emigrated to Boston in 1638. His great grandfather David (1768-1814) was country doctor, his grandfather Erastus (1802-1893) was also a general practitioner. His father, a stern puritanical doctor, combined a large practice with the professorship of midwifery, diseases of women, and medical jurisprudence at Cleveland Medical College and was also for many years a trustee of Case Western Reserve University.