Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Bush, T. G. 1847 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   T. G. BUSH, one of the most substantial citizens of Anniston, Ala., was born
in Pickensville, Pickens county, Ala., in 1847. He is a son of Albert P. and
Sarah A. (Williams) Bush, the former of whom is a native of Georgia, came to
Alabama about the year 1835, and settled in Pickens county, where he remained,
in the mercantile business, many years. He then removed to Mobile, where he now
lives. He is a son of John and Nancy (King) Bush, who came from Georgia to
Alabama about 1830, and lived on their farm till their death, near Oxford, Ala.
Mrs. Sarah A. Bush is a native of Alabama, and a daughter of Curtis and Patience
(Thomas) Williams, the former of whom was a member of the Alabama legislature.
He was a son of Curtis Williams, who also served in the Alabama legislature. T.
G. Bush's father removed to Mobile in 1852, and engaged in the cotton commission
business, in which he continued for many years. He is now living in Mobile, at
the age of seventy-four years. T. G. Bush's childhood was spent in Picken's
county, Alabama, and in Mobile, and during his youth was a portion of the time
on his father's plantation, in Noxubee county, Miss. He entered the university
of Alabama at the age of fourteen, and remained there two years. He was adjutant
of the corps of cadets, which, in 1864, was ordered into the service. In 1861,
when he was thirteen years old, he organized two military companies, the service
or one of which was tendered to the governor of Alabama as state troops, and
accepted by him. In 1864, while the university cadets were in service, he left
them and entered the regular army as adjutant of the Fifty-second Alabama. In
May, 1865, he was captured at Blakely, Ala., after a severe battle there, and
held prisoner at Ship island and in New Orleans until the surrender of Gen. Dick
Taylor, when he was exchanged at Vicksburg, Miss., and paroled at Meridian,
Miss. In October, 1865, he entered university of Mississippi, and had, among his
instructors, the late Justice L. Q. C. Lamar, and Dr. L. C. Garland, president
of the Vanderbilt university. At the end of two years he graduated in the same
class with his brother, who was two years his senior, his brother taking first
honors, and he taking second. His school days ended, he entered into the cotton
commission business with his father and brother in Mobile, withdrawing, after
four years, from the firm, and establishing himself in the wholesale grocery
business in Mobile, in 1871. This business has ever since been continued under
the firm name of T. G. Bush & Co. In 1886, he accepted the presidency of the
Mobile & Birmingham railroad company, a position which he still retains. He was
the first president of the present Mobile chamber of commerce, and served for
several years. He also served for some time as president of the Planters' &
Merchants' fire insurance company of Mobile. In April, 1890, he was elected
president of the Shelby iron company. In 1891, he was made president of the
Woodstock iron company, which position he resigned after one year, and accepted
the presidency of the Clifton iron company, at Ironton, Ala., which position he
still retains, together with the presidency of the Shelby iron company. He was a
member of the legislature of Alabama in 1886-87, and served as chairman of the
ways and means committee. In 1890, in connection with Mr. D. T. Parker, Mr. Bush
organized the Anniston water supply company, and now the city of Anniston has
one of the finest supplies of water, and one of the most superior water plants
of any city in the union. He was made president of this company, and still
retains this position. He is also engaged in stock raising, having a large farm
near Oxford, Ala., and within four miles of Anniston, on which he has large
herds of thorough-bred Jersey cattle and Shetland ponies. In June, 1871, he was
married to Miss Alberta Williams, daughter of Rev. Albert and Anna (Hollis)
Williams. Both Mr. and Mrs. Williams came to Alabama from Georgia. The father of
Rev. Albert Williams is said to have been the first owner of a cotton factory in
Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Bush have had born to them five children, namely: Annie,
Albert P., Morris W., Thomas G. Jr., and Edwin Hollis. Mrs. Bush was born in
Alabama, and was reared and educated in Montgomery. She and her husband are
members of the Baptist church. Mr. Bush is a trustee of Howard college, and of
the Marion military institute, at Marion, Ala. He is also a member of the board
of trustees of the deaf and blind institute of Alabama, located at Talladega.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 585-587

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