BUSHNELL BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri ==================================================================== BUSHNELL, Emanuel - b: 1827 Rockingham Co, VA source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 634 residence: Tebo Emanuel Bushnell was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, July 21, 1827. William Bushnell, his father, a carriage maker by trade, was born March 22, 1787, in Saybrook, Connecticut, and on May 29, 1817, married Miss Polly Harnsberger, daughter of Adam and Catherine Harnsberger. She was also born in Rockingham County, December 3, 1788. They had five children, four sons and one daughter, of whom Emanuel is the only surviving child. They both lived in Virginia until their deaths, Mr. B. dying February 20, 1845, and his widow August 8, 1851. Young Bushnell obtained a good practical schooling in youth, and at the age of fourteen years commenced life for himself. In 1854 he emigrated to Henry County, Missouri, landing at Calhoun on April 19, and with him came his sister, Mary Ann. They brought a colored family consisting of seven persons, and Mr. B. made his home for sometime with an older brother who had preceded him to Missouri in an early day. October 30, 1855 he was married to Miss Mary E. F. Watson, daughter of John and Ellen Watson, of Boston, Massachusetts, where she was born March 14 1836. They have had six children, three sons and three daughters: William Tupper, born August 12, 1856, died June 22, 1882, soon after having graduated from the Missouri Medical College, in the class of 1881-2; John Archibald; born April 17, 1859, and now in the mercantile establishment of J. W. Keyser, at Calhoun; Richard Ira, born March 25, 1861, and died in February following; Mary Ann, born March 28, 1863, married E. H. Fox, of Henry County; Eleanor L., born September 6, 1870; and Virginia A., born June 3, 1872. For nearly four years Mr. Bushnell was engaged with his brother J. A. as salesman. In the fall of 1857 he purchased a tract of 240 acres known as the Brummet farm, and continued farming until the outbreak of the war. Since then he has been a resident of Calhoun and for the last four years has acted as city collector. Since 1870 he has been more or less of the time a member of the school board. He belongs to Calhoun Lodge No. 409, I. O. O. F. His wife is connected with the Presbyterian Church. Politically he is a Democrat. ==================================================================== BUSHNELL, John A. - b: 1821 Harrisonburg, Rockingham Co, VA source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 796 residence: Deer Creek John A. Bushnell, nephew of Horace Bushnell, of Hartford, Connecticut, and descendant of David Bushnell, distinguished in the revolutionary war for the invention of a submarine vessel designed to destroy the British fleet, was born in Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, April 6, 1821, where he was reared and educated. Mr. Bushnell commenced merchandising in his native town when quite a young man, and his business was attended with marked success. But failing health caused him to undertake a trip to the West Indies, by which he believed he would be benefited, and there he also thought he would again engage in merchandising. Before embarking, however, he changed his purpose and came at once to Missouri, where he spent the remainder of his life. He first came to Boonville, then to Warsaw, and remaining only a short time at each of those places, he finally settled at Calhoun. Here he resumed merchandising and attended with even greater success in business than in Virginia, he soon accumulated what was considered at that time a comfortable fortune. On the breaking out of the war, in 1861, he became identified with the South, and in the vicissitudes of property as well as life incident to civil strife. Returning to Calhoun at the close of the war, he was married two years afterward, August 15, 1867, to Miss Eugenia Bronaugh, and removed to St. Louis, where he again engaged in business and where he died in 1874. He left two sons, Horace and John A., and their mother, Mrs. Bushnell, still survives him. John A. Bushnell was a man of upright character and pure motives. He had that characteristic, that undefinable something, about him that made all who came in contact with him like the man. ==================================================================== BUSHNELL, John A. - b: 1859 Calhoun, Henry Co, MO source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 635 residence: Tebo John A. Bushnell. The subject of this sketch was born in Calhoun, Henry County. Missouri, April 17, 1859, and was the son of Emanuel and Mary (Watson) Bushnell. John A. was raised to manhood in this county, and received his education in the public schools. In 1872 he graduated at Eastman's Commercial College of New York, after which he acted as salesman in different stores in Calhoun until 1879. Then he embarked in the mercantile business with Mr. Squires, they doing a large and successful business until August, 1880, when they sold out to Mr. Keyser. Mr. Bushnell has since remained with him as head salesman. He is a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church. He is Past Grand of Calhoun Lodge, No. 409 of the I. O. O. F. fraternity. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by the Henry County MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mohenry/henryco.html Contact the Henry County Coordinator for comments or corrections. ====================================================================