Editing Caleb Cushing (section)

===Early life===
Cushing was born in [[Salisbury, Massachusetts]], on January 17, 1800; he was the son of John Newmarch Cushing, a wealthy [[shipbuilder]] and merchant, and Lydia Dow, a delicate and sensitive woman from [[Seabrook, New Hampshire]], who died when he was ten. The family moved across the [[Merrimack River]] to the prosperous shipping town of [[Newburyport, Massachusetts]], in 1802. He entered [[Harvard University]] at the age of 13 and graduated in 1817.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Caleb Cushing. |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670873/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA|date=January 1861 }}</ref> He was a teacher of mathematics there from 1820 to 1821, and was admitted to practice in the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas in December 1821; he began practicing law in Newburyport in 1824.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Cushing, Caleb|volume=7|pages=666–667}}</ref> There he attended the [[First Presbyterian Church, Newburyport|First Presbyterian Church]].

On November 23, 1824, Cushing married Caroline Elizabeth Wilde, daughter of Judge [[Samuel Sumner Wilde]], of the [[Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court]]. His wife died about a decade later, leaving him childless and alone. He never married again.