Alexander Cushing
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November 28, 1913
Harvard Law School
Alexander Cushing | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alexander Cochrane Cushing November 28, 1913 New York City, United States |
| Died | August 19, 2006 (aged 92) Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Education | Groton School |
| Alma mater | Harvard College Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Spouses | Justine Cutting
(m. 1938; div. 1965)Elizabeth Woodward Pratt
(m. 1970; died 1985)Nancy Wendt
(m. 1987) |
| Parent(s) | Howard Gardiner Cushing Ethel Cochrane |
Alexander Cochrane Cushing (November 28, 1913 – August 19, 2006) was a lawyer who founded Squaw Valley Ski Resort in California.[1][2]
Alexander Cochrane Cushing was born on November 28, 1913, in New York City. He was the son of Howard Gardiner Cushing (1869–1916),[3] a well-known artist[4] who died when Cushing was three years old, and Ethel (née Cochrane) Cushing (1882–1948), who had poor health most of her life.[5] His older sisters were Olivia Dulaney Cushing (1904–1908), and Lily Emmet Cushing (1909–1969),[6][7] an artist.[8][9] His older brother, Howard Gardiner Cushing Jr. (1906–1979), married Mary Callender Ames (1908–1982), daughter of Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr.[10][11][12]
In 1925,[13] his mother remarried to James Denison Sawyer (1875–1943),[11] a Wall Street stock broker.[14][15] As a child, he lived at a home on East 70th Street, in a house designed by his godfather, William Delano.[16]
His paternal grandparents were Robert Maynard Cushing (1836–1907), a wealthy Boston tea merchant who was a son of John Perkins Cushing (1787–1862),[17] and Olivia (née Dulany) Cushing.[3] His uncle was Grafton Dulaney Cushing.[13] His maternal grandparents were Alexander S. Cochrane (1840–1919),[18][19] and Mary Lynde (née Sullivan) Cochrane (1851–1918). His maternal aunt, Margaret Cochrane,[20] married F. Murray Forbes,[13] a Boston banker.[21] His first cousin, Alexander Cochrane Forbes was married to Irene Helen Robbins, the daughter of Warren Delano Robbins.[22]
Due to the early death of his father and his mother's health issues,[23] Cushing spent much of his young life at boarding school, attended the Groton School, graduated from Harvard University in 1936, and then Harvard Law School three years later in 1939.[1][5]