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=Cushing, Caleb.= _Ms._, 1800-1879. A Massachusetts statesman and
diplomatist, who was attorney-general of the United States, 1853-57.
Historical and Political Review of the Late Revolution in France,
1833; Practical Principles of Political Economy; Life of William
Henry Harrison; Growth and Territorial Progress of the United States,
1837; Reminiscences of Spain; History of Newburyport; The Treaty of
Washington. _See Appleton’s American Biography._ _Har._
=Cushing, Luther Stearns.= _Ms._, 1803-1856. A well-known authority
on parliamentary practice and a Massachusetts jurist who was lecturer
on Roman Law in Harvard University, 1848-56. Massachusetts Reports,
1848-53; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Trustee Process; Remedial
Law; Reports of Controverted Election Cases in Massachusetts;
Introduction to the study of Roman Civil Law; Elements of the Law
and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States; Lex
Parliamentaria Americana; Rules of Proceeding and Debates in the
Deliberative Assemblies. _Lit._
=Cushing, William.= _Ms._, 1811-1895. Brother of L. S. Cushing,
_supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts who, after retiring
from the ministry, devoted himself to literary research, and published
Anonyms; Initials and Pseudonyms, useful guide-books of literary
information. _Cr._
=Custer, Mrs. Elizabeth [Bacon].= _Mch._, 184- - ----. Wife of G. A.
Custer, _infra_. Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General
Custer; Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer in Kansas and Texas;
Following the Guidon; The Boy General. _Har. Scr._
=Custer, George Armstrong.= _O._, 1839-1876. A famous general in the
Federal army during the Civil War, who afterwards became noted in
campaigns against the Indians, and was killed with his entire command
in a battle with the Sioux in the Black Hills. My Life on the Plains
was his only publication.
=Custis, George Washington Parke.= _Va._, 1781-1857. An adopted son of
General Washington. He published Recollections of Washington.
=Cuthbert, James Hazard.= _S. C._, 1822- ----. A Baptist divine of
Washington. Our Mission as Baptists; Life of Richard Fuller, _infra_.
=Cutler, Elbridge Jefferson.= _Ms._, 1831-1870. A professor of modern
languages at Harvard University, 1865-1870. War Poems; Stella. _See
Memoir by A. P. Peabody, infra, 1872._
=Cutler, Mrs. Hannah Maria [Tracy] [Conant].= _Ms._, 1815-1896.
A prominent woman-suffragist who became a physician in 1879, and
practiced in Cobden, Illinois. Woman as She Was, Is, and Should Be;
Phillipia, or A Woman’s Question; The Fortunes of Michael Doyle, or
Home Rule for Ireland.
=Cutler, Jervis.= _Ms._, 1768-1844. A Western pioneer who published
Topographical Description of the Western Country (1812). _See Life and
Times of Ephraim Cutler._
=Cutler, Mrs. Lizzie [Petit].= _Va._, 1836- ----. A novelist of New
York City. Light and Darkness; Household Mysteries, a romance of
Southern life; The Stars of the Crowd, or Men and Women of the Day.
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