Cushing, James Royal

Cushing, James Royal a Congregational minister, was born at Salisbury, N.H., November 24, 1800. He studied at the Thetford (Vermont) Academy; graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1828; the next year, August 12, he was ordained pastor of the Church in Boxborough, Massachusetts, where he remained until June 10, 1833; the next two years was city missionary in Boston; from June 1835, until April 1844, pastor in East Haverhill; from November following uitil May 1854, pastor in Wells, Maine. After this he was acting pastor il the following places: Taunton, Massachusetts, until 1861; North Rochester till 1869; Cotuit Port the next year; Waquoid, 1871-74; subsequently resided without charge at East Haverhill until his death, June 11, 1881. See Cong. Year-book, 1882, page 27.