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Cushing, Luther Stearns

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CUSHING, LUTHER STEARNS

"All language, not addressed to the house, in a parliamentary course, must be considered noise and disturbitive."
—Luther Cushing

Luther Stearns Cushing achieved prominence as a legal educator, author, and jurist. He was born June 22, 1803, in Lunenberg, Massachusetts.

Cushing graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of laws degree in 1826.

From 1826 to 1832, Cushing was an editor for The American Jurist and Law Magazine. For the next twelve years, he served in the state government system as clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Cushing entered the judicial phase of his career in 1844, presiding as judge of the Boston Court of Common Pleas for a four-year period. In 1848, he became a reporter for the Massachusetts Supreme Court, performing these duties until 1853.

In 1848 Cushing returned to his alma mater, Harvard University, and presented a series of lectures on roman law at the Harvard Law School until 1851.

As an author, Cushing is famous for several publications, including A Manual of Parliamentary Practice, also known as Cushing's Manual, published in 1844, and Elements of the Law and Practice of the Legislative Assemblies in the United States, published in 1856.

Cushing died June 22, 1856, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Watts, Mary S(tanbery)

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Copyright

Watts, Mary S[tanbery] (1868–1958), Ohio novelist whose works include Nathan Burke (1910), a story of an Ohio backwoods boy in the Mexican War; Van Cleve (1913), dealing with the Middle West during the period of the Spanish‐American War; The Rise of Jennie Cushing (1914), dealing with the career of a slum girl and her humanitarian work; From Father to Son (1919), a story showing the changing standards of the 20th century by the refusal of a boy to accept the fortune of a profiteering grandfather; The Boardman Family (1918); The House of Rimmon (1922); Luther Nichols (1923); and The Fabric of the Loom (1924).

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