Ellen Cushing, Educator and Missionary

April 30, 1915:  Ellen Cushing died in Providence, RI.  Cushing was first an educator who assisted freed slaves in entering post-way society.  Later she went as a missionary to Burma with her husband, Josiah, where they collaborated on an English-Shan dictionary.  In the late 1890s, she started the Baptist Training Institute in Philadelphia to train single women missionaries.  The BTI later became Ellen Cushing College.