BUSH, AMOS

BUSH, PRATT

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/14/2013 at 10:11:47

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 800

BUSH, AMOS--Farmer, section 2, P.O. Victor. Born May 19, 1850, in Monroe county, Pennsylvania. There lived on a farm till 1856, when he came with his parents to Iowa and settled in Iowa county, where he lived till the spring of 1858, then came to this county, living in Warren township and attending school in Iowa county till 1868. Then addended school a few months in this county. In the spring of 1870 he went to Nebraska and engaged in farming till the fall of 1874, when he returned to this county and continued to farm for some months, then went to the Black Hills in the spring of 1876--also to other places, returning to Victor in the fall of 1876, where he lived till the spring of 1877, when he located where he now lives and owns eighty acres of productive, well-improved land. Mr. B. was married March 5, 1873, in Cedar county, Nebraska, to Miss Orpha May Pratt, who was a resident of the same State, born September 10, 1856, in Iowa. They have two children: Willie (born April 12, 1874) and Freddie Elmer (born June 26, 1875).