Cushman, Elisha (2)
Cushman, Elisha
a Baptist minister, was born at Kingston, Mass., May 2, 1788. He was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hartford, June 10, 181:3. In 1824 he was made M.A. (honorary) by Yale College. In 1825 he resigned his charge in Hartford, and became pastor of the New Market Street Baptist Church of Philadelphia. In September, 1829, he returned to Connecticut, and, after preaching some time at Stratfield, was, in April, 1831, called to the pastoral charge of the Baptist church in New Haven. In 1835 he removed to Plymouth, Mass., but returned to Hartford in 1838, and resumed the editorship of The Christian Secretary, a religious paper of which he had been the original editor in 1822. He died October 26, 1838. Mr. Cushman’s preaching was simple, instructive, and often eloquent. He published a number of occasional sermons and addresses. Sprague Annals, 6:562.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Cushman, Elisha (2)
a Baptist minister, son of Reverend Elisha Cushman, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, July 4, 1813. In March 1836, he commenced, with Mr. Isaac N. Bolles, the publication of what was subsequently known as the Hartford Courier, a political newspaper. In March 1838, he began a religious paper, the Christian Secretary, the organ of the Baptists in Connecticut, which had been discontinued for a short time. In the autumn of 1839 he became a Christian, and united with the First Baptist Church in Hartford. Soon after this he retired from the editorship of the political paper, of which he had had charge, and confined his attention to the Secretary. In April 1840, he was licensed to preach, and was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church in Willington, September 30 of the same year. He now gave up his editorial work, and devoted himself to his Church, of which he remained pastor for five years, when, in consequence of ill-health, he resigned. In a year or two his health was so far restored that he was able to resume his ministerial work; and in April 1847, he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Church at Deep River, where he continued for several years. He afterwards acted as pastor of the Church in West Hartford for some time, and returned, at length, to his former position as editor of the Christian Secretary, for a season, performing the duties of pastor of the Church at Bloomfield. His death occurred at Hartford, January 4, 1876. See the Cushman Genealogy, page 408; Turnbull, in the Christian Secretary, January 12, 1876. (J.C.S.)