Background
Cushman, Allerton Seward was born on June 2, 1867 in (United States Consulate) Rome. Son of Edwin and Emma (Crow) Cushman.
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Allerton Seward Cushman
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Bachelor of Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1888. Freiberg, and Heidelberg, 1889-1890. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1896, John Harvard fellow, Doctor of Philosophy, 1897.
Private to captain, 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1898.
Career
Associate professor of chemistry, Bryn Mawr College, 1900-1901. Assistant director Office of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture, and chemist in charge of investigations, 1902-1910. Founder and director Institute of Industrial Research, Washington, 1910-1924.
Commissioned major Ordnance Roman Catholic, June 4, 1917.
Stationed at Frankford Arsenal, Pennsylvania. Promoted lieutenant colonel Ordnance, United States of America, January 1918.
Discharged December 1918. Principal researches: extraction of potash from feldspathic rocks.
Use of ground rock as fertilizer.
Properties of road materials. Cause and prevention of the rusting of iron and steel. Franklin medal, 1906.
Author: The Corrosion and Preservation of Iron and Steel, 1910.
Chemistry and Civilization, 1920, second edition, 1925.
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Married Sarah Dunn Hoppin, June 20, 1901 (died 1921). Children: Charles Van Brunt, Agnes Hoppin (deceased).
