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Mary Benedict Cushing
Mary Benedict "Minnie" Cushing (January 27, 1906 – November 6, 1978) was an American socialite, philanthropist and art collector.
Early life.
Mary Benedict Cushing was the eldest daughter of Harvey Williams Cushing (1869–1939) and Katharine Stone Crowell. Her father, a pioneering neurosurgeon, was the first person to describe Cushing's disease, and who, along with Ernest Sachs, is known as the "father of neurosurgery."
Her two sisters, also prominent socialites, were
childhood friend, on June 10, 1902. They had five children:
- William Harvey Cushing (1903–1926)
- Mary Benedict Cushing (1906–1978), who married Vincent Astor and later James Whitney Fosburgh;
- Betsey Cushing (1908–1998), who married James Roosevelt and later John Hay Whitney;
- Henry Kirke Cushing, who married Marjorie Estabrook in 1936.
- Barbara "Babe" Cushing (1915–1978), the socialite wife of Stanley Grafton Mortimer and later William S. Paley.
Trained under Cushing