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The Cushing Sisters were three 20th-century American socialites. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They were the daughters of neurosurgeon Harvey Williams Cushing and his wife Katharine Stone Crowell: [ 3 ] Minnie Benedict Cushing (1906–1978), philanthropist and art collector.
Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley, born Barbara Cushing in Boston, Massachusetts, was the daughter of renowned brain surgeon Harvey Cushing, who belonged to a prominent Cleveland medical family and held professorships at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Yale, and Katharine Stone (née Crowell), a granddaughter of Ohio congressman John Crowell.
Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease .
Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley, born Barbara Cushing, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 5, 1915 to the brain surgeon Harvey Cushing and Katharine Stone. Cushing had two older sisters, Mary ...
She was the daughter of famous brain surgeon Harvey Cushing and younger sister to Minnie and Betsey, with whom she was part of “the fabulous Cushing sisters.” The three were famed for marrying ...
All three Cushing sisters married into wealth and prominence: Her older sister, Mary "Minnie", married Vincent Astor, [5] the heir of a $200 million fortune, in 1940, and her younger sister Barbara "Babe" was married to Standard Oil heir Stanley Mortimer Jr., and later to CBS founder William S. Paley. Both of her sisters died of cancer within ...
Mary Benedict Cushing was the eldest daughter of Harvey Williams Cushing (1869–1939) and his wife Katharine Stone Crowell. Her father, a pioneering neurosurgeon, was the first person to describe Cushing's disease, and, along with Ernest Sachs, is known as the "father of neurosurgery."
Babe was the daughter of Dr. Harvey Cushing. Together, with her older sisters, she was part of the "fabulous Cushing sisters." [17] Her sister Minnie Cushing was the second wife of Vincent Astor, and another sister, Betsey Cushing married James Roosevelt (the son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt), and later John Hay Whitney. [18]