Cushing (Harvey) is born in Cleveland.

The son of Dr. Henry and Betsey (Williams) Cushing, Harvey Cushing graduates from Yale College and Harvard Medical School, trains under Dr. William Halsted, and returns to Boston in 1913 to become surgeon-in-chief at the new Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He serves in the medical corps in World War I, returns to Boston and comes to be called the “Father of American Neurosurgery.” A resident of Brookline, Cushing retires from medicine in 1932, then serves as a professor at Yale University Medical School. He dies in New Haven on October 7, 1939.