Alexander Cushing

Alexander Cochrane Cushing (November 28, 1913 – August 19, 2006) was a lawyer who founded Squaw Valley Ski Resort in California. Early life Alexander Cochrane Cushing was born on November 28, 1913, in New York City. He was the son of Howard Gardiner Cushing (1869–1916), a well-known artist who died when Cushing was three years old, and Ethel (née Cochrane) Cushing (1882–1948), who had poor health most of her life. His older sisters were Olivia Dulaney Cushing (1904–1908), and Lily Emmet Cushing (1909–1969), an artist. His older brother, Howard Gardiner Cushing Jr. (1906–1979), married Mary Callender Ames (1908–1982), daughter of Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr. In 1925, his mother remarried to James Denison Sawyer (1875–1943), a Wall Street stock broker. As a child, he lived at a home on East 70th Street, in a house designed by his godfather, William Delano. His paternal grandparents were Robert Maynard Cushing (1836–1907), a wealthy Boston tea merchant who was a son of John Perkins Cushing (1787–1862), and Olivia (née Dulany) Cushing. His uncle was Grafton Dulaney Cushing. His maternal grandparents were Alexander S. Cochrane (1840–1919), and Mary Lynde (née Sullivan) Cochrane (1851–1918). His maternal aunt, Margaret Cochrane, married F. Murray Forbes, a Boston banker. His first cousin, Alexander Cochrane Forbes was married to Irene Helen Robbins, the daughter of Warren Delano Robbins.