Lemuel Cushing (April 29, 1806 – May 18, 1875) was a businessman and pioneer in the

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. He was born in

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, the son of Job Cushing, who came to the

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from the United States. Cushing moved to

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with his parents at the age of eight. In 1821, he moved to

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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.''Les noms géographiques de la province de Québec'' (1906)
Roy, PG pp. 142-3 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

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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

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was a Montreal lawyer who served briefly in the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cushing, Lemuel 1806 births 1875 deaths Pre-Confederation Quebec people Mayors of places in Quebec Anglophone Quebec people Canadian people of American descent