Ralph Adrian Gushee (1866-1933) was elected to The Lambs in 1916 as a Non-Professional member. Gushee was the proprietor of the Claremont Inn on West 126th Street on the banks of the Hudson River for 41 years, from the 1890s until 1920.
Gushee and his family lived on the top two floors of the Inn during that time. He hosted luncheons at the Inn for Presidents McKinley and Taft, among other notables. Robert Moses took the building and demolished it to build the Westside Highway.
Gushee was also a real estate operator, and built the Longue Vue Inn at Hastings-On-Hudson, which he owned at the time of his death.
Ralph Gushee died 7 Oct 1933. He was 67. He is interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, in the Dogwood section.