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Edward Hopkins Cushing

Edward Hopkins Cushing was a newspaper editor in Houston.

Early life
Cushing was born on June 11, 1829, in Royalton, Vermont, the son of Daniel and Nancy Anthony Cushing. Daniel was a farmer. Cushing grew up on the family farm, but showed and interest in books and education. He enrolled at Dartmouth College and graduated in 1850. ==Career==
Career
Cushing moved to Texas in the early 1850s, while taking jobs as a teacher in Galveston, Brazoria, and Columbia. While still working in Columbia, he started writing for the local paper, the Democrat and Planter. Cushing was one of the Texas newspaper editors of the 1850s who were Democrats in the mode of John Calhoun. While Cushing was not a native southerner, but he was a booster for southern causes and policies benefitting Houston specifically. Among the latter, he used his editorship to advocate for railroad development with stations in Houston, but also the continued use of Houston as a steamship destination on Buffalo Bayou. ==Death==
Death
Cushing died on January 15, 1879. ==References==
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