One of the most able, successful and progressive of the younger
generation of professional men in Montreal is Dougall Cushing,
connected with important legal interests as a member of the firm
of Barron & Cushing, notaries. He is a native son of the city,
born May 3, 1886, his parents being Charles and Lily (Macaulay)
Cushing. The family is of old American establishment, the
great-grandfather of the subject of this review, Job Cushing,
having been born in Massachusetts in 1765. The father was born in
May, 1848, and he was for a number of years the senior member of
the firm of Cushing & Barron and known as an able and reliable
notary. He was in addition a director in the Sun Life Assurance
Company, on the board of governors of the Young Men’s Christian
Association and deacon in Calvary Congregational church, a man
of wide interests, high standards and useful and important
accomplishments. His death occurred September 30, 1910. He and
his wife became the parents of seven children, R. Macaulay,
Dougall of this review, Charles, Arthur, Eric, Geoffrey and Edith.
Dougall Cushing was reared in his parents’ home and acquired
his preliminary education in the grammar and high schools of
Montreal. He afterward attended McGill University, from which
he was graduated B. A. in 1907 and B. C. L. in 1910. In the
following year he established himself as a notary in his native
city, associating himself with Robert H. Barron, his father’s
former partner. The firm of Barron & Cushing is today, as it
has been for many years past, one of the strongest of its kind
in the city, for Dougall Cushing has followed closely in his
father’s footsteps, and has proved himself brilliant, reliable
and energetic in the conduct of his professional interests.
Mr. Cushing belongs to Phi Kappa Pi, which he joined in McGill
University and is a member of the Seventeenth Regiment, Duke
of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars. He is one of the popular and
enterprising young men of Montreal and has already gained a
creditable place in a profession in which his superior merit and
ability will undoubtedly win for him ultimate distinction.
HON. SAMUEL GALE.
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