page_title: Elizabeth Cushier
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Cushier / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Emily Blackwell, ca. 1860s
context_page_description: Elizabeth M. Cushier was a professor of medicine, and one of New York's most prominent obstetricians for 25 years before her retirement in 1900.
context_section_description: From 1882, Cushier lived in New York City with Blackwell and an Irish girl named Nanni adopted by Emily Blackwell in 1871. Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi wrote in 1888 to Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell's sister, about Cushier, "She is [...] a remarkable lovely woman, spirited, unselfish, generous and intelligent. I do not know what Dr. Emily would do without her. She absolutely basks in her presence; and seems as if she had been waiting for her for a lifetime." Blackwell and Cushier retired at the turn of the century. 
  After traveling abroad for a year and a half, they spent the next winters at their home in Montclair, New Jersey and summers near York Cliffs, Maine, where they acquired a summer home.
  Blackwell died in September 1910, after which Cushier said that it made "an irreparable break in my life." Cushier died on November 25, 1931, and is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
  Elizabeth Burr Thelberg, who studied under Cushier, curated the Autobiography of Dr. Elizabeth Cushier (1933). Cushier's papers are archived among the Blackwell Family Papers at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
caption: Dr. Emily Blackwell, ca. 1860s
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