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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 276
photo p. 277


LEWIS CLARK RUSH.

	Lewis Clark Rush has been admitted to practice at the bars of 
Michigan, Illinois and Colorado and is now following his profession in 
Denver, giving his attention largely to corporation law. He was born in 
Chauncey, Illinois, December 29, 1887. His father, Louis Rush, is a 
native of Ohio and is now a farmer of Crawford county, Illinois, where 
he has extensive land holdings, his possessions aggregating one 
thousand acres. He has been very active and prominent in local affairs 
there, filling the office of county supervisor and serving in other 
public connections. He is a veteran of the Civil war, having gone to 
the front with an infantry regiment, with which he participated in 
various hotly contested engagements and also went with Sherman on the 
celebrated march from Atlanta to the sea. He married Grace Greer, who 
was born at Chauncey, Illinois, and is a daughter of Richard Greer, who 
was of Irish birth, as was his wife. The death of Mr. Greer occurred in 
Joplin, Missouri, when he had reached the advanced age of ninety-six 
years. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Rush were seven children, three of 
whom have passed away.

	Lewis C. Rush pursued his early education in the district schools 
of Illinois and afterward attended the Central Normal School of 
Danville, Indiana. His preparation for the bar was made in the 
University of Michigan, which conferred upon him the LL. B. degree upon 
his graduation as a member of the class of 1912, while in 1913 he 
received the LL. M. degree from his alma mater. He was admitted to the 
Michigan bar at Lansing in 1912, was admitted to practice in the courts 
of Illinois in 1913 and in the courts of Colorado in 1914. Following 
his removal to the west he was connected with the district attorney's 
office in 1914-15, after which he entered upon practice alone and has 
since given his attention largely to corporation law. He is well versed 
in that branch of jurisprudence and is now the legal representative of 
various important corporate and business interests. He is regarded as a 
wise counselor and an able advocate and is making steady progress in 
the profession, having already gained a position that many an older 
member of the bar might well envy. In early manhood he devoted two 
years to teaching school and was made superintendent of schools when a 
young man of but twenty-four years.

	Mr. Rush is a Mason, belonging to Western Star Lodge, No. 26, A. 
F. & A. M., of Danville, Indiana, also to Colorado Chapter, No. 29, R. 
A. M., and Colorado Commandery, No. 25, K. T., both of Denver. He has 
likewise crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of El Jebel 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine and he has membership with Denver Lodge, 
No. 17, B. P. 0. E. He became a member of Kappa Sigma at Danville, 
Indiana, and he has ever been loyal to his pledges to these different 
organizations. His has been a well spent life - a career of usefulness 
which has won for him the honor and respect of all with whom he has 
been brought in contact.