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About Lemuel Cushing
- Lemuel Cushing (April 29, 1806 – May 18, 1875) was a businessman and pioneer in the Ottawa valley. He was born in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, the son of Job Cushing, who came to the Eastern Townships from the United States.
- Cushing moved to Montreal with his parents at the age of eight.
- In 1821, he moved to Vermont for a short time but returned to Chatham Township in Lower Canada after a few months.
- There he established himself in business in the location which later became the municipality of Cushing.
- In 1836, Cushing married Catherine Hutchins.
- Cushing operated a hotel at Caledonia Springs, the site of springs thought to have medicinal properties.
- He organized a group of volunteers during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 which protected the village of Saint-Eustache and the registry office at Saint-Benoît from pillaging.
- In 1859, he bought Cushing Island near Portland, Maine.
- Cushing was mayor of Chatham township from 1861 to 1872 and then warden of Argenteuil County from 1872 until his death three years later. His son Lemuel was a Montreal lawyer who served briefly in the House of Commons of Canada.
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