"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

CLAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN CO., INDIANA
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BARNARD B. BUSH, of the firm of Bush & Brother, dealers in general
merchandise, was born in Orange County, N.Y., on September 18, 1856, and is
a son of George B. and Mary (Lyon) Bush, having been the second of their
four children.  The firm of Bush & Brother does a thriving business, is
carrying a stock of $3,000, and trading annually to the amount of $10,000 at
Centerton, Ind.  Barnard B. was reared on a farm, and attended the public
schools a sufficient length of time to enable him to teach.  Mr. Bush, Sr.,
and his wife came to Indianapolis from New York, and from there moved to
Centerton.  On the breaking out of the war, he went into the service, but
never returned to his home.  Barnard B. began life for himself at nineteen
years of age, at farming, and continued in that pursuit until 1880, when he
engaged in the mercantile business, and ever since has been doing a thriving
trade in that line at Centerton.  Mr. Bush was married, on September 30,
1878, to Emma Ferguson, a native of Morgan County, Ind., and by her he has
had two children--May, born May 2, 1880, and Lee, born September 23, 1883.
Mrs. Bush is a consistent member of the Christian Church, Mr. Bush is a
Republican and holds the office of Trustee of the township, being now in his
second term.  After his first election, he made a special levy of 35 cents
on the $100, for the purpose of building a graded schoolhouse of four rooms.
This became an issue in his second election, and he having been successful,
the building was completed, and a school is taught there which is a credit
to any township.  Mr. Bush is a self made man, not having depended upon any
one for help in climbing the ladder to prosperity.

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