Mushrush, George M.

MUSHRUSH, SHILLITO

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/6/2013 at 07:58:27

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

MUSHRUSH, GEORGE M.—Deep River Twp—pg 738. Section 27, P.O. Deep River. His great-grandfather and grandfather were both born in Germany, but immigrated to the United States when the latter was twelve years old. They followed farming in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, where his father was born in 1808. George was born in the same county, the eighteenth of March, 1835. He attended a good common school, and worked on his father’s farm until twenty-eight years of age, when he married and immigrated to Iowa, and farmed for about fifteen years in Adams township, Keokuk county, when he sold out there and bought and moved to his present place, the third of March, 1880. Mr. Mushrush married in Pennsylvania on the twenty-sixth of February, 1863, to Miss Mary Ann Shillito of North Chenango, Pennsylvania, who was born in North Chenango, September 9, 1840. Her grandfather and father were natives of Ireland. They have one child: Charles M. (born March 5, 1864). Mr. Mushrush owns a good farm of eighty acres.