Biographical Sketch of James Lawrence Rush, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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James Lawrence Rush, a leading criminal lawyer of Missouri, was born in
Westmoreland county, Penn., November 9, 1832, being the eldest of eight
children born to the union of John H. and Margaret (Riley) Rush.  The
father was born in 1806, and died at Bedford, Penn., in 1870, and the
mother was born in 1807, and died in 1882.  James L. Rush received a
common school education, and at the age of seventeen years he went to
Baltimore, Md., and learned the carriage maker's trade, which he con-
tinued until twenty-one years of age.  He then worked at his trade for
one year at Washington, Penn., when he went to Bedford and entered the
law office of Judge William McClay Hall, being admitted to the bar in
1857.  In 1858 he came to Marshfield, Mo., and here carried on the 
practice of law until the breaking out of the late Civil War, when he
joined the Webster county Home Guards, and served as such for three
months.  After the battle of Wilson's Creek he acted as a Union scout
during the retreat on Rolla.  Later he entered the Sixth Provisional
Regiment as adjutant, detached from the Enrolled State Militia, and at
the organization of the Sixteenth Regiment he was made major, and took
part in the campaign against Price in 1864.  During the last four 
months of the war he was on detached service at Springfield, Mo., with
Gen. Sanborn, as acting judge advocate.  Since the war Mr. Rush has
been engaged in the law practice at Marshfield.  He is a Democrat in
politics, and in 1860 he was elected county surveyor.  He was also
elected county attorney seven years later, and was the Democratic
elector from the Thirteenth Missouri District in 1888.  July 1, 1860,
he was united in marriage to Miss Frances E. Nichols, and she and one
of eight children were killed in the cyclone of 1880.  Mr. Rush is a
Mason, also a member of the G. A. R., and is one of the prominent men
of Marshfield.

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