Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Shust, George May 2, 1839 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

GEORGE SHUST, farmer on sec. 21, Green Tp., was born in Wutemburg, Germany, 
May 2, 1839.  His parents, John 

and Barbara (Blake) Shust, were born and died in the "Faderland."  Mr. Shust 
came to America when 14 years 

of age, accompanied by his borther John.  They located in Cleveland, Ohio, 
where they remained three years, 

engaged as farm laborers, and occasionally obtaining employment in the city.  
Mr. Shust went thence to 

Hillsdale, Mich., and there worked on a farm three years.  At the expiration 
of that time, in the fall of 

1858, he came to Mecosta County, and spent four years as a lumberman.  He then 
went to Kent County, and  

returned hither at the end of two years, when he bought the farm whereon he 
now resides, then in a 

perfectly wild state and at once entered vigorously on the work of clearing 
and improving it.  He now owns 

160 acres, with about 100 in tillage.

Mr. Shust was married in 1861, to Cynthia Nippress, a native of Ohio, born 
Sept. 11, 1844.  She was a 

daughter of Robert and Christina Nippress, and died June 28, 1883.  The family 
comprise five children, 

namely:  Charles I., Nelson, Cora E., Chancey L., Della M., George W. and 
Flora A.

Mr. Shust is prominent in public-school interests in his township, and is a 
Republican with reference to 

national affairs.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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