About John Perkins Cushing
John Perkins Cushing, called "Ku-Shing" by the Chinese, was a wealthy American sea merchant, opium smuggler, and philanthropist. His sixty-foot pilot schooner, the Sylph, won the first recorded American yacht race in 1832. The town of Belmont, Massachusetts is named after his estate.
- Occupation
- merchant
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 22, 1787
- Died
- 1862
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