CUSHMAN, Elisha, clergyman, born in Kingston, Massachusetts, 2 May 1788" died in Hartford, Connecticut, 26 October 1838. He abandoned the carpenter's trade to become a preacher at the age of twenty, was licensed by the Baptist Church in Kingston after a short course of study, and ordained a pastor in Hartford. He took a prominent part in establishing the Connecticut Baptist missionary society in 1814. which was reorganized as the Baptist convention in 1822, and in 1822 founded and edited a denominational journal called the "Christian Secretary." In 1825 he resigned his charge in Hartford to become pastor of a Church in Philadelphia, but returned to Connecticut in 1829, and after preaching in Fairfield became pastor of the Church in New Haven in 1831. In 1835 he removed to Plymouth, Massachusetts, but on the failure of his health in 1838 returned to Hartford a few weeks before his death, for the purpose of resuming the editorship of the" Christian Secretary."