Cushing, Jonathan Peter

Cushing, Jonathan Peter a Presbyterian minister, was born at Rochester, N.H., March 12, 1793. He studied at Phillips Academy, Exeter; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1817; went to Virginia, and became connected with Hampden-Sidney College, first as a tutor, then as a professor, and after the death of Dr. Hodge, in 1820, as president, in which office he continued until the close of his life, April 25, 1835. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 4:524.