April 30, 1915: Ellen Cushing died in Providence, RI. Cushing was first an educator who assisted freed slaves in entering post-war 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.
