Valentine Roush, junior member of the firm of Kuhn & Roush, proprietors of the Manning Roller Mills, was born in Highland County, Ohio, February 2, 1848, a son of John and Rebecca Roush, natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania respectively. In 1855 the family came to Iowa, locating in Marion County, and there the parents still reside, the father aged eighty-six years, and the mother at the age of eighty-three years. They reared a family of fifteen children, of whom twelve, six sons and six daughters, are still living, our subject being the youngest child. He remained under the home roof until attaining the age of nineteen years, when, in 1867, he went to Pottawattamie County, and from there went to Cass County two years later. He subsequently went to Adair County, where he lived the year previous to coming to Carroll County. In 1882 the firm of Kuhn & Roush was formed, and the same year the mills were erected, under the supervision of Mr. Roush, at a cost of $12,000, with nine sets of rollers and two burrs, driven by a fifty horse-power engine, this being one of the best mills in Northwestern Iowa. Mr. Roush was reared to the avocation of a farmer, commencing this present occupation, milling, in Cass County in 1870. He was united in marriage in that county in 1870, to Miss S. S. Heathmann, and to this union have been born three children — Jairus C., Harlow P. and Blanche. Politically Mr. Roush is a prominent member of the Democratic party, and in 1885 he was elected a member of the county board of supervisors, and in 1887 was elected chairman of the board. He is genial and courteous as a business man and citizen, and is a general favorite. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is junior warden of Manual Lodge, No. 450, at Manning. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, belonging to Lodge No. 252, at Manning.

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