PUSEY, William H. M. from the "Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa"


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WILLIAM H. M. PUSEY, of the well-known firm of Officer & Pusey, 
bankers of Council Bluffs, was born in Washington County, 
Pennsylvania, July 29, 1826, the son of Nathan and Martha (Mills) 
Pusey.  The former, a merchant and farmer by occupation, was a 
native of Culpeper Court-House, Virginia.  He was of English and 
Quaker ancestry, his forefathers having come over with William Penn, 
settling in Philadelphia.  Caleb Pusey, one of the number, was one 
of Penn's commissioners, and built the first mill in the colony at 
Philadelphia.  Nathan Pusey, a man of excellent judgment, was very 
successful, and retired to Baltimore, Maryland, where he died in 
1865.  He had a family of five sons and two daughters.

William H. M. Pusey was educated at Washington, Pennsylvania, in the 
Washington-Jefferson College, and graduated at that college in 1847, 
in the same class with Hon. 	James G. Blaine.  He removed to Iowa in 
1856, settling in Council Bluffs, where he has made his home ever 
since.  The same year he engaged in the banking business with his 
present partner, his brother-in-law, Thomas Officer, and has since 
devoted his whole life to that business.  In 1858, however, he was 
elected State Senator from Pottawattamie Senatorial District, then 
embracing twenty-seven counties bordering on the Missouri River and 
extending eastward.  In 1882 he was elected a member of Congress 
from the Ninth Iowa District, and with these exceptions his entire 
life has been devoted to his present business.  He has always taken 
a deep interest in the progress of his adopted city, and in the 
development of the State.

Mr. Pusey was united in marriage to Miss S. E. Officer, of 
Washington County, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1849, a sister of his 
partner.  They have three children living, viz.: Ella, wife of Dr. 
C. H. Pinney, of this city, Frank S., a resident of Deliver, 
Colorado, engaged in the construction of railroads and electric 
motor lines; and Kate, who resides with her father and mother.