1880 History of Polk County
Biographies - Des Moines
D. Bush
BUSH, D. - Among the old settlers of Polk county may be mentioned the subject of this sketch, who was born in Pennsylvania in March, 1799, and lived in his native place until ten years of age, and then removed to Licking county, Ohio, where he learned the tanning business, and followed it until he came to Polk county in 1847, and continued the same business; and his was the first tannery in this county. Since coming to the county he has spent six and one-half years in California; he married Miss Elizabeth Mone on the tenth day of February, 1824; she was born in Ohio. They have two children, Leonidas H. and Horace M.
Source: "The History of Polk County, Iowa" published by the Union Historical Company, Birdsall, Williams & Co. 1880, pg. 779.
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