BUSH, Alva, Rev. (1830-1881)

BUSH

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Date: 12/18/2007 at 20:53:25

Historical Sketches of Iowa Baptists, 1886.

REV. ALVA BUSH, LL. D., Principal of Cedar Valley Seminary, died June 26, 1881, at Osage. He was stricken with paralysis, in the street, June 23, and lived but three days. He was born January 25, 1830, and was married in 1853 to Eliza J. Moore of Jamestown, New York. His education was, mainly, received at Jamestown Academy and at Burlington University, Iowa. He was ordained pastor of the church at Strawberry Point in November, 1859, and was afterwards pastor at Fayette, and instructor in the Upper Iowa University. In 1863 he went to Osage and began the Cedar Valley Seminary, where we have already traced his most honorable career for eighteen years. He was recognized as one of Iowa’s ablest educators. “A thorough scholar himself, he impressed upon his pupils his own methods of thought and study. His bearing and presence were an inspiration to those who learned of him.” “Thus in many respects was Prof. Bush a model man.”