My Genealogy Hound

DANIEL H. CUSHING, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Clark County, was appointed to this position January 1, 1890, to fill a vacancy, having previously served a number of years as Deputy. He was afterward nominated for the office by the Republican County Convention held February 17, 1890. He is a bachelor approaching his forty-ninth year, having been born November 11, 1841, at Madison, Ind. His father, Courtland Cushing, was born in Warren County, this State, in 1812. and was the son of Daniel Cushing, one of the earty settlers of Ohio.

The father of our subject was a lawyer by profession and was admitted to the bar in Warren County. He married Sarah, daughter of Phineas Ross of that county and soon after removed to Madison, Ind., where he practiced his profession a number of years. Three children were born to Courtland and Sarah (Ross) Cushing — Mary, now deceased; Sarah C. and Daniel H., our subject. The mother died when Daniel H. was but two years old and a few years later the father, Courtland Cushing, placing his children under the care of relatives in Ohio, went to South America and later to Central America, where he engaged in business and where he died in 1856.

Daniel H. Cushing was educated in public and private schools at Springfield, Ohio, and later entered Granville College where he remained some time but left without graduating. He was engaged in various pursuits until 1878 when he became Deputy Clerk of the Common Pleas Court which position he retained until appointed to that which he now holds.