Edwin Charles CUSHMAN Jr. ²³⁸⁰

   Cause of his death was tuberculosis.

  General Notes:

Born at 38 Via Gregoriana.
"The new Cushman who arrived in late November, scarcely more than a few days after Charlotte returned to 38 Via Gregoriana, was another boy, Edwin Charles--whom she and the maids promptly nicknamed Carlino."
ex "http://www.cardinalbook.com/leach/cushman/iso8859/chap28.htm

Probably christened 11 Jan 1869 U. S. Consulate, Roma, Roma, Italy

"Edwin C. Cushman, Jr., nicknamed "Carlino" was an adventurer. He left his family to participate in the Alaska Gold Rush. Subsequently he discovered a tribe of hitherto unknown Indians in Colorado, some of whom he brought to the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1898. From them he contracted tuberculosis from which he died." (p. 209, C.VB Cushman)

http://www.gold-rush.org/cgi-bin/goldrush/search.cfm
NWMP records at Lake Bennett: people who entered the Yukon via boats
(The second of three volumes of Lake Bennett records maintained by the North West Mounted Police. These records list the names and boat numbers of stampeders embarking on the Yukon River trip from Lake Bennett to Dawson City. Led by legendary Mountie Sam Steele, the North West Mounted Police contingent at Lake Bennett worked painstakingly to keep track of the flotilla of 7,000 boats, skows, barges and rafts.)
Date, Name, Checkpoint Entered
May 18, 1898 CUSHMAN, W.C. St. Louis, MO - boat 41
May 18, 1898 CUSHMAN, E. C. St. Louis, MO - boat 41
and also..
NWMP records at Lake Bennett: people who entered the Yukon via boats (NWMP Dawson Docks (4,694 records). Just as they kept track of Chilkoot crossings and boats built at Lake Bennett, the North West Mounted Police maintained records of individuals arriving at and leaving Dawson City on Yukon River steamships. These dockside archives list ships such as the S. S. Nora, S. S. Leaver, S. S. Bailey and SS Australian as INWARDS or OUTWARDS (bound).)
Date, Name, Checkpoint Entered
June 29 1899 CUSHMAN, W.C. S. S. CLIFFORD SIFTON - OUTWARDS
and also...
Placermining Applications Vol 1
Name, Claim number, Microfilm number, Year Recorded
CUSHMAN, A 9654 05 1901
CUSHMAN, A 35577 10 1900-1901
CUSHMAN, A 65889, 65978 16 1901-1904
CUSHMAN, C 18497 06 1898-1901
CUSHMAN, W 58, 59 03 1898-1899

and also...
Placermining Grants Vol. 3 (19,259 records)
The third of three "Placerming Grants Volumes."
After gold was discovered in 1896 on Bonanza Creek, thousands of claims were staked along tributaries of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. The Yukon Gold Commissioner's Office issued "Placermining Grants," enabling prospectors to become miners and work their claims for "placer" findings (mineral deposits containing gold, left by glaciers or rivers ). This, the first of three Placermining Grants volumes, lists almost 20,000 numbered grants and the names of their owners
Name, Claim number, Microfilm number, Year recorded
CUSHMAN, W 58, 59 3 1898-1899
CUSHMAN, A 9654 5 1901
CUSHMAN, C 18497 6 1898-1901
CUSHMAN, A 35577 10 1900-1901
CUSHMAN, A 65889, 65978 16 1901-1904

1910 Census entry for Violet Cushman Coddington give place of birth of father as Missouri rather than Rome. Also, no statewide or county death certificates were mandatory in Virginia between 1896 and 1912, so it is unlikely that a death certificate can be located. ^3075,3076

  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the census in 1880 in Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island, USA. ³⁰⁷⁷

• He appeared on the census on 31 Jul 1900 in Seattle, King Co., Washington, USA. ³⁰⁷⁸ On 3rd Avenue, "lodger." Birth given as May 1869, New York, but father's birthplace as New York, and mother's as Missouri. Identity uncertain.

• He has conflicting death information of 27 Sep 1907 and Cedarville, Warren Co., Virginia, USA. [As spelled in source].

• He was employed as a special agent of the Department of Anthropology in 1904 in Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA. ^{3079,3080,3081} "Mr. E. C. Cushman Jr., special agent of the Department of Anthropology, has gone to Yuma Arizona to arrange for the presence at the Exposition of a group of Cocopa Indians from Northwestern Mexico. This tribe still cultivates corn and other crops in aboriginal methods, and makes pottery, basketry, etc. of distinctive character."

Edwin married Alice Clara MULLER, daughter of Wilhelm MÜLLER and Odelia Julia BONNE, on 4 Mar 1890 in Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA.³⁰⁷⁰ (Alice Clara MULLER was born about 4 Jul 1868 in Vicksburg, Warren Co., Mississippi, USA,^40,3082,3083 died on 20 Dec 1951 in Katonah, Westchester Co., New York, USA and was buried in Cross River Cmty, Cross River, Westchester Co., New York.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They have conflicting birth information of Abt 1892. ³⁰⁸⁴ Age at marriage listed as 17 in 1930 census