Elizabeth Cushier

Elizabeth M. Cushier (November 25, 1837 – November 25, 1931) was an American professor of medicine, and one of New York's most prominent obstetricians for 25 years before her retirement in 1900. and was associated with Emily Blackwell, a pioneer of medical education among women.

World War I During World War I volunteered for Red Cross and performed relief work in Belgium and France.

Personal life 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,

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.