Alvin M. Cushing (1829-1912) was born in Burke, Vermont, and died in Springfield, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth H. Pearsons in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1860. Cushing worked as a homeopathic physician. He studied medicine at Dartmouth, the Woodstock Medical School, and the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated. He began practicing in Bradford, Vermont, and then in Lynn, Massachusetts, from 1865 to 1880. Cushing was the physician who examined Mary Baker Eddy when she survived a severe fall on an icy sidewalk in Lynn on February 1, 1866. He was a member of Trinity Methodist Church in Springfield. He practiced medicine in Springfield for the last twenty-five years of his life.

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