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CUSHING, Jonathan Peter, educator, born in Rochester, N. H., 12 March 1793; died in Raleigh, N. C., 25 April 1835. In his boyhood he was apprenticed ; but, by skillfully managing the proceeds of his overwork, he purchased a portion of his time, and immediately entered Phillips Exeter academy. By working a portion of each day and by teaching, he paid his way through College, being graduated at Dartmouth in 1817. His health failed, and he went south, became a tutor in Hampden Sydney College in the November following his graduation, and professor of chemistry and natural philosophy two years later. This chair he held for two years, when he became the president of the College. By his exertions, the institution, which had been sadly disorganized and broken down, was built up again; but the labor and responsibility of the enterprise exhausted his strength and hastened his death.
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