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#OTD 30 March 1872 Charles Christey Cushnie was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of 6 children born to immigrants David Park Cushnie and Margaret Maize, who had been pregnant on the ship from Glasgow. David had been a miner in Scotland and found employment in a coal mine in Pennsylvania. Charles followed his father into the coal mines, but as an engineer. He later became an electrician in a tin mill. He married and had 6 children, including my father's stepmother.
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