BIO: Eli Bushman, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVIII.

   SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

550  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  ELI BUSHMAN, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Carlisle, was born in 
Carroll County, Md., January 19, 1826, son of Henry and Mary (Starr) 
Bushman, natives of Adams County, Penn., and Maryland, respectively, 
and of English origin.  Henry Bushman, who is a farmer, resides on a 
farm, near Carlisle, and is eighty-five years old.  He reared two 
children:  Eli and Louisa, wife of Mr. Lepperd.  Our subject received 
his education in the common school, and early in life learned the 
blacksmith's trade, at which he worked, however, but two years; since 
when he has devoted himself to agriculture, and now owns a farm of over 
103 acres, on which he resides.  Eli Bushman was married, in 1847, to 
Eliza Jane Adams, of Irish origin, and this union has been blessed with 
ten children, all of whom are living:  Theodore (a farmer, is married), 
Harry, Rebecca, John Scott, Sarah Ann, George, Mary, Kate, Ida and 
Calvin.  Mrs. Bushman is a member of the Lutheran Church.  In politics 
Mr. Bushman is a Republican.