Person:John Cushing (10)

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John Perkins Cushing
b.22 Apr 1787 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.1862
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Name John Perkins Cushing
Gender Male
Birth[1] 22 Apr 1787 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1] 1862
Reference Number? Q6252572?


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John Perkins Cushing (April 22, 1787 – April 12, 1862),[1] called "Ku-Shing" by the Chinese, was a wealthy American sea merchant, opium smuggler, and philanthropist. His sixty-foot pilot schooner, the Sylph, won the first recorded American yacht race in 1832. The town of Belmont, Massachusetts is named after his estate.

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