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Rare William Lee Cushing Autograph Yale Professor Founder of Westminster School For Sale
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Rare William Lee Cushing Autograph Yale Professor Founder of Westminster School:
$77.99
This c1895 autograph is from William Lee Cushing, who was a Yale rowing team member, Yale professor, and founder of Westminster School in Connecticut.
Approximate size: 1.9 inches x 1.25 inches
This cut of paper was signed by him as a request of the original collector, who wrote to school presidents, leaders, and professors in the 1890s and 1900s to ask for their autograph.
At Yale he was given a Junior high oration and a Senior oration appointment, and was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of the Freshman Crew in 1869 and of the University Crew the following year, being captain until he resigned. He belonged to the Class Glee Club, the Class Chess Club, and the Beethoven Society, was a class deacon, and served on the Class Picture Committee.
Mr. Cushing taught at the Hartford Public High School for a year after graduation, and from 1873 to 1885 was rector of the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, during this period serving on the New Haven Common Council for two years. He then spent two years in foreign study, chiefly at the American School in Athens, and upon his return to America became an instructor in Latin at Yale. In 1888 he founded the Westminster School for boys at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. He moved the school to Simsbury, Conn , in 1900, and continued as headmaster until 1920, when he retired on account of failing health. He then spent several months abroad, returning to his home only a short time before his death, which occurred very suddenly, from heart failure, on December 11, 1921. The interment was in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Conn.
In 1882 Yale conferred the honorary degree of Master of Arts upon Mr. Cushing. He was a member and deacon of the Simsbury Congregational Church and a director of the Simsbury Bank & Trust Company.Please inspect the pictures, as they give the best representation of condition. May have discoloring, edge or corner wear, marks, creases, fading, smudges, corner or edge bends, tears, or corners missing.
(A13 inventory number)
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