Biographical Sketch of Robert Bust, Washington County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Robert Bust, proprietor of the Cadet Roller Mills, and a member of the
firm of Long & Bust, owners of the Potosi Mills, is of English birth,
and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Bust, who had a family of nine
children.  Robert, who was the third child, was born in 1834, and lo-
cated in Washington County, Mo., when twenty-one years of age, in 1855.
He learned the trade of a miller, which has been his life occupation,
with an uncle, Robert Hornsey.  The mill he now operates at Cadet he 
has remodeled two or three times; he rebuilt it and made it a roller
mill in 1887, providing the mill with the latest improved machinery,
with a capacity of fifty barrels per day, and the quality of its pro-
duct meets with a ready sale, being unsurpassed in this section of
Missouri.  In 1865 Mr. Bust was married to Miss Lucy McGready, a daugh-
ter of Dr. James H. and Mary Ann (McClanahan) McGready, who were among
the early settlers of Washington County.  Mr. and Mrs. Bust are the 
parents of eight children, viz.: Francis J., Fannie E., William H.,
Edward M., Preston T., Jesse W., Latty J. and Lucy I.

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