Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Bush, Martin L 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Martin L Bush, retired farmer and dealer in real estate, at Sterling, was born 
in that village, Nov. 22, 1838. His parents were Luther and Eunice (Cornish) 
Bush, natives respectively of Connecticut and New York. His father, a mason by 
occupation, came to Bureau Co., Ill., in 1836, and in 1839 to Sterling. He 
died in October, 1870, and Mrs. Bush is still living, with her son, the 
subject of this sketch. The latter, after receiving a common-school education 
and attaining legal age, left home and commenced working at the business of an 
artist. About nine years afterward he went to Iowa and took up a homestead of 
80 acres, and also bought 80 acres, on which he lived and labored for ten 
years. He then moved back to Sterling, renting his farms in Iowa, and engaging 
in the real-estate business. Mr. Bush is a good business man; in political 
matters he votes for the "best man," and he is a member of the I. O. O. F. 
March 17, 1860, he married Catherine Wexler, a native of Germany, and they 
have three children,—Laura, Bertha E. and Eva J.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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