1857. FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING
Sex: M



Birth: 22 July 1857 in North East, Erie County, Pennsylvania
Death: 10 April 1900

Occupation: Curator-Ethnological Department of the National Museum, Washington D.C

Frank began to collect relics, fossils and minerals when eight years old, and continued his researches after his father had removed to Medina, New York in 1870, in a field of rich material. He extended his investigations to the ancient fortifications, burial grounds and camp sites of Madison and Onondaga Counties. He entered Cornell University in 1875, but devoted his time to assisting Dr. Charles Rau in preparing the Indian collections of the National Museum for the Centennial Exposition and was Curator of the entire collection throughout the Exhibition, after which he became Curator of the Ethnological Department of the National Museum in Washington, D.C. In 1879, he joined Maj. J. W. Powell, U.S.A., in his expedition to New Mexico, as Assistant of the United States Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institute. Mr. Cushing, at his own request, remained with the Zuni Indians, adopting their dress, customs and habits, and in this way for three years studied their history and language. In his second year's sojourn, he was formally adopted by the tribe and initiated with the sacred "Priesthood of the Bow". In 1882, he escorted a party of six Zunis to the Atlantic Ocean or "Ocean of Sunrise", to carry its waters to their temple in the Pueblos. Two of the natives remained with him in Washington during the summer and aided him in preparing his contributions to the Bureau of Ethnology on Zuni Fetiches. He returned to his Indian friends in 1882. Failing in health obliged him to return to the East, and in 1884, accompanied by three Indians to aid him in the preparation of the Dictionary and Grammar of the Zuni language, and in translating myth stories, songs and rituals, he settled in Washington. From 1886 to 1888, Mr. Cushing organized and conducted archeologic research in the Salado and Gila Valleys in Arizona, in charge of the Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition. In 1895, he went to make investigations in Florida. The discoveries made by him on this expedition were of great interest and of profound importance in American archeology, and at his death he had nearly finished a voluminous report on his discoveries.

1880 U.S. Census: Zuni, Shi Wi Na, Valencia, New Mexico
Lai-An-Luh-Si-Wa Self D Male NA 70 ZUNI NM Laborer ZUNI NM ZUNI NM
Iu-I-Tsui-A-Luh-Tit-Sa Sister D Female NA 56 ZUNI NM Housekeeping ZUNI NM ZUNI NM
Tsai-Lu-Ai-Ti-Wa Son M Male NA 38 ZUNI NM Farmer ZUNI NM ZUNI NM
Tsai-A-Lu DauL M Female NA 30 ZUNI NM House Keeper ZUNI NM ZUNI NM
Iu-Niai-Tsa-Lun-Kia GSon S Male NA 10 ZUNI NM ZUNI NM ZUNI NM
Tsai-Iui-Tsai-Alu-Tit-Sa GDau S Female NA 5 ZUNI NM Zuni Nm ZUNI NM ZUNI NM
Pa-Lu-Wah-Ti SonL M Male NA 48 ZUNI NM Governor - Silversmith ZUNI NM ZUNI NM
Lau-Tit-Sa-Lu-Sit-Sa Dau M Female NA 40 ZUNI NM Housekeeper ZUNI NM ZUNI NM
Tsai-Ui-Si-Lun-Kia Nephew S Male NA 18 ZUNI NM Laborer ZUNI NM ZUNI NM
T. H. CUSHING Other S Male W 24 PA Ethnologist NY CT

Father: Thomas Cushing b: 12 December 1821
Mother: Sarah Harding Chittenden b: 24 August 1829 in Chatham, Connecticut

Marriage 1: Emily Tennison Magill
Married: 10 June 1883
Note: Emily was from Washington, D.C.

Sources:
1. The Genealogy of the Cushing Family (An account of the Ancestors and Descendants of Matthew Cushing, who came to America in 1638) by James Cushing, The Perrault Printing Co - Montreal, 1905. First Edition, 1877, by Lemuel Cushing, D1881 (Finished by his family).
2. Lamb's Biographical Dictionary, U.S., 1900
3. 1880 U.S. Census: Zuni, Shi Wi Na, Valencia, New Mexico