Cushman - Samuel R. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Lake City (Iowa) Blade: Samuel R. Cushman was born in Bernardston, Mass., Feb. 15, 1830. Early in life he left the New England home and coming west, settled in Sycamore, Ill., where he remained for several years. There he married Miss Meriam Dennis. They afterward moved to Chicago, and also spent a few years in Crawfordsville, Ind., where he operated a restaurant. Thirteen years ago they came to Lake City, where they have since resided. Mr. Cushman was a thorough business man, believing in honest and honorable dealings. He was ever strong for the right and conscientious in every particular. Of a very domestic nature, his home was his resting place. His long and painful illness was borne with manly patience and fortitude and he passed quietly away Thursday afternoon, March 10, leaving his wife and their only child, Mrs. Nellie Kilgore, to mourn the loss of a faithful husband and father. Mr. Cushman will be greatly missed in the public and private affairs of Lake City. He has for the past nine years been at the head of the city treasury and was very diligent and attentive to business matters pertaining to the city. At the time of his sickness he was the acting treasurer, and only two weeks before his death, realizing that his years were drawing to a close, he asked the chairman of city finances and city clerk to examine his books and passed in his resignation. Everything was kept in a business like manner, and when he was ready to turn over his business, although sick for two months previous, it took but a short time to turn the pages over and find a true and just account of all his transactions. -s