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JOHN E.
CUSHING
John E.
Cushing, president of American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, was born November
20, 1887, in San Rafael, California. He is the son of Sidney B. and Grace N.
(Eldridge) Cushing.
His education was obtained at
Stanford University from which he graduated in 1908 with the degree of A.B.
From 1909 to 1912 Mr. Cushing was
associated with Bates & Chesebrough; then with W.
R. Grace & Company from 1912 to 1916; with Williams, Dimond
& Company, New York, from 1916 to 1917. From 1917 to 1919 he served with
the Army Transport Service, New York; then with the United States Shipping
Board at Washington, D.C., from 1919 to 1920; partner in Williams, Dimond & Company from 1921 to 1923. Since 1923 Mr.
Cushing has been associated with the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, San
Francisco, California, becoming vice president in 1925 and president since
1938. Also member of Board of Directors of the Matson Navigation
Company.
Director of Bank of California,
N.A., San Francisco, Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company; deputy
administrator of Pacific Area, United States War Shipping Administration since
1942; trustee of Stanford University. Member of The
Pacific-Union Club of San Francisco.
Mr. Cushing married Grace Isabel
Beaver on August 21, 1915. Their home is in San Francisco, California, at 2525
Webster Street.
Offices: 215 Market Street, San Francisco, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 92, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies