BIO: Henry G. Bussey, York County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/york/ _______________________________________________ History of York County, Pennsylvania. John Gibson, Historical Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886. _______________________________________________ Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 171 HENRY G. BUSSEY, M. D., was born at Green Spring Plantation, Harford Co., Md., in 1816, and is the third son of Henry G. and Elizabeth (Harris) Bussey, of French and Scotch descent, respectively. The paternal grandfather was a colonel during the Revolutionary war, and the maternal grandfather a captain. Henry G. Bussey was a captain in the war of 1812. Our subject received his elementary education at the Green Spring Academy, on his father’s premises; he then read medicine for two years with Dr. W. J. McElheney, of Bel Air, Md.; then, in 1834, entered the University of Maryland, from which he graduated in 1837; he practiced in Peach Bottom Township, this county, a few months, then in Maryland until 1840, when he settled in Shrewsbury borough, where he has ever since enjoyed a lucrative practice. In 1837 he married Miss Catharine Boarman, who bore him two children (Mary Elizabeth and Henry G.), and died in January, 1884. The Doctor has held a number of offices, among them those of inspector and judge of elections, school director, physician to the county prison, physician to alms house in his native county, prothonotary, 1857 to 1863, and in 1874-76 State senator. In 1848 he was nominated for congress, but declined in favor of J. B. Dana.