Cushing Eells was an American Congregational church missionary, farmer and teacher on the Pacific coast of America in what are now the states of Oregon and Washington.
27 Facts About Cushing Eells
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Cushing Eells continued to teach and preach in Washington for the remainder of his life.
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Cushing Eells was born at Blandford, Massachusetts, on February 16,1810.
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Cushing Eells's parents were Joseph Eells and Elizabeth Eells, nee Warner.
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Cushing Eells attended Williams College, and graduated in 1834, then went on to the East Windsor Theological Institute in Connecticut, from which he graduated in 1837.
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Cushing Eells was ordained as a Congregational minister on October 25,1837.
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On March 5,1838, Cushing Eells married Myra Fairbanks in Massachusetts.
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On September 16,1838, Cushing Eells conducted the first Protestant service in Stevens County at Chewelah, preaching through an interpreter.
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Edwin Cushing Eells was born on July 27,1841, and Myron Cushing Eells was born on October 7,1843.
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Myron Cushing Eells would become a missionary, and spent much of his life on the Skokomish Reservation, to the west of Puget Sound, where his brother Edwin was Indian Agent.
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In 1855 Cushing Eells was dismissed by the American Board of Home Missions.
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Cushing Eells taught at different schools in the Tualatin Plains, One was the Oregon Institute which later became Willamette University.
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In 1849 Cushing Eells founded the Tualatin Academy, now Pacific University.
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In 1860 Cushing Eells acquired the mission claim area at Waiilatpu.
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Cushing Eells bought land nearer to the town, where he started the Whitman Seminary.
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Cushing Eells was appointed superintendent of schools for Walla Walla County.
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Cushing Eells devoted much effort in the years that followed to founding Congregational churches and schools in Washington Territory and raising money for the seminary.
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Cushing Eells became overworked with the demands of his farm, school and superintendent work.
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In July 1874, Reverend Cushing Eells came back to the Chewelah area, the only one of the four missionaries to do so.
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Cushing Eells was pastor of the church at Skokomish from 1874 to 1876.
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Myra Cushing Eells died in Skokomish on August 9,1878, at the age of seventy-three.
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Cushing Eells established the first Congregational Church at Chewelah in 1879 in the home of Thomas Brown.
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Cushing Eells continued to often preach to Indian groups in his later years, spent in eastern Washington.
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Cushing Eells spent his last years at the Puyallup Reservation, sometimes still working among the Indians.
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In 1892, a church was erected at Chewelah, although Reverend Cushing Eells was living west of the Cascade Mountains, he came and offered prayer in the new church some 54 years to the day after he first camped on the site.
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Cushing Eells bought it in New York and paid for it a few days before his death.
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Cushing Eells died on February 16,1893, in Tacoma, Washington, aged 83.