Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Bush, William June 26, 1850 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 319
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    William Bush is the son of Henry Bush and Elizabeth Ames 
Bush.  Henry Bush was born in 1827 in Washington county, 
Penna, and was a farmer of West Bethlehem township.  He 
served through the War of the Rebellion in the Eighty fifth 
Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry and was wounded at Roanoke, 
Virginia, by the bursting of a shell causing such a fracture 
of his leg that it had to be amputated.  He was killed in 
June, 1875, while he was cleaning a well at Hillsboro by a 
bucket falling on him.  His widow is still living and 
resides at Hillsboro.
    William Bush was born June 26, 1850, at Hillsboro, 
Washington county, Penna, was reared and educated at that 
place.  At the age of eighteen he went to Marshall county, 
Illinois, where he remained for two years. Returned to 
Fayette county and worked at mining till 1880 when he went 
to Colorado and worked in the silver mines for about 
eighteen months, when he returned to Fayette county and 
established himself in the furniture and undertaker business 
at Dawson.  He occupies a large building on Railroad street 
near the depot where he keeps a large stock of furniture, 
and has built up a good and paying trade.
    He was elected burgess of Dawson in 1885, and held the 
office for two years; was re-elected in 1889, and is the 
present incumbent.  In 1888 he was elected a member of the F 
& A M, the I O O F, and Royal Arcanum.
    Mr Bush was married in 1878 to Miss Katie E Cox, 
daughter of Harrison Cox, a farmer of Upper Tyrone township. 
 They have three children: Della Bush, Harry Bush and Bessie 
Bush, and all are living.

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