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HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. tative of the thirty-first general assembly of tlie Arkansas state legislature and was the author of the law passed by that body to build state rauroads. Bush, Joseph, portrait painter, artist, was •

born in 1793 in Franklin, Ky. His most noted paintings are those of Zaohary Taylor, Governor

Moore.

John Adair, and Judge Thomas B. He died Nov. 11, 1865, in Lexington,

Bush, Katherine Jeanette, zoologist, auwas born Dec. 30, 1855, in Scranton, Pa. Since 1879 she has been assistant in the zoology department of Yale university museum. She is the author of The Tubicelous Annelids from Alaska of the Tribes Sabellides and Serpulides; and other works. Bush, Norton, painter, artist, was born Feb. 32, 1834, in Rochester, N.Y. In 1877 he became director of the San Francisco art association; and in 1879-83 was president of the Sacramento Lric-a-Brac club. Among his works are Mount Diablo, and City of ranama. His Summit of the Sierras is in the Crocker gallery of Sacramento; and his Lake Nicaragua is in the Stanford gallery of San

thor,

Francisco.

Bush, Bufus T., merchant, philanthropist, was born in Tompkins county, N.Y. He attained success as a noted merchant of Chicago; and donated the Hall memorial library and one thousand volumes to Eidgeway, Mich. He wrote a short, pithy volume of European Travels. He died Sept. 15, 1890, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Bush, William Lincoln, business president, founder, was born March 3, 1861, in Chicago, 111. With his father he founded the Bush and Gerts piano company of Chicago; 111.; and upon the death of his father became president. He is treasurer and founder of the Bush Temple conservatory of music and dramatic art and president of the Chicago harmonic association. Bush-Brown, Henry Kirke, sculptor, artist, was born April 21, 1857, in Ogdensburg, N.Y. He has made statues of General G. G. Meade, John F. Reynolds and President Lincoln Memorial at Gettysburg, Pa., and many oth;

ers.

Bushnell, Allen Ralph, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born July 18, 1833, in Hartford, Ohio. In 1861 he entered the union army and served as captain of com-

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been district attorney of Grant county. Wis. and United States attorney for western district of Wisconsin. He served as a member of the Wisconsin state legislature. In 1891-93 representative from Wisconsin to

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the fifty-second congress. In congress his speeches on silver and tariff questions were used as campaign documents in the presidential elections of 1892 and 1896. He especially endeavored to have the United States constitution amended to elect United States senators by a direct vote of the people. Bushnell, Asa Smith, soldier, manufacturer, banker, governor, was born Sept. 16, 1834, ii. Rome, N.Y. He served through the civil war. He was president of the Warder, Bushnell and Glessner company, manufacturers of

champion mowers and binders. The

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one of the largest industries in Springfield, Ohio, covering over sixty acres of ground and employing more than one thousand workmen. In 1886-93 he was quartermaster-general of Ohio. He was president of the first national bank and of the Springfield gas light and coke company. He was the thirty- seventh governor of Ohio in 1896is

1900. He died Jan. 15, 1904, in Springfield, 0. Bushnell, Charles Ira, antiquarian, author, was born July 38, 1836, in New York City. He was an antiquarian writer of New York City. He was the author of Crumbs for Antiquarians; and Adventures of Sir Christopher Hawkins. He died in 1883 in New York City. Bushnell, Cornelius S., railroad constructor, inventor, was bom in 1839. He won fame

through his connection with John Ericsson in the construction of the Monitor. During the civil war he built more ships for the government than any other man in his shipyard at Fair Haven, where he and Ericsson built the Puritan and the Dictator. Later, when he turned his attention to railroads, he helped to construct the Union Pacific. He died April 6, 1897, in New York City. Bushnell, David, soldier, inventor, was bom in 1742 in Saybrook, Conn. During his college course he matured plans that led to the production of what may be called the earliest of torpedoes. He invented several other machines for the annoyance of the British shipping. He served continuously during the war, attaining the rank of captain in the corps of sappers and miners. He died in 1834 in Warrenton, Ga. Bushnell, George Ensign, army surgeon, was bom in Massachusetts. In 1881 he enter-' ed the United States army as assistant surgeon. He served throughout the SpanishAmerican war; and in 1898-99 was major and chief surgeon of United States volunteers. Since 1898 he has been major and surgeon in the United States army; and is now major in the medical department of the general hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico. Bushnell, Henry, clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 31, 1834, in Granville, Ohio. He is the author of History of Granville, Ohio; and Following the Star. Bushnell, Horace, clergyman, author, was born April 14, 1803, in Litchfield county. Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Hartford; and was one of the foremost