Biographical Sketch of David M. Rush, Dallas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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David M. Rush, county collector, was born in Barren County, KY.,
November 27, 1849, the grandson of John Rush, a Virginian, born in
1776, who was in the battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812; for
that service he received a 40 and a 120 acre land warrant.  David's
father, Daniel W. Rush, born in Allen County, KY., in 1824, married
Rhoda J. Chapman in 1848, immigrating to Polk County, MO., in 1852.
Four of their six children survive:  David M., Mary E. wife of John
Tompkins, Rhoda A. now Mrs. R.B. Lee, and William R.  John J. died
in 1868, aged twelve, and Maletha, in 1883, aged twenty-two.  David
M. remained on his father's farm until 1870 (his mother having died
in 1861), and in 1871 left the public schools to enter a select
school at Urbana, MO.  A portion of his three years' course was 
devoted to the higher mathematics.  After teaching from 1874 to
1881 he engaged in the patent right business for several years,
during which time he secured two patents of his own invention, one
for a washing machine, and the other for an adding machine, both a
success, and of acknowledge ingenuity in mechanical construction.
In 1878 Mr. Rush married Vivia Lindsey, of Louisburg, MO.  Their
four children are Dolores, Lascelles, Loise and Norma L.  In 1886
he was elected as a Republican county collector of Wright County,
and served with such satisfaction that he was renominated in 1888
without opposition, and was, of course, elected, running several
votes ahead of his ticket.  He has been a Mason since 1875.  His
wife is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.
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