Frank Edward Bushnell Biography

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FRANK EDWARD BUSHNELL is successfully engaged as a grain grower and stock 
raiser, and his farm in Alton township, Brookings county, is classed among the 
most desirable pieces of property in this part of the country.  He is a son of 
William and Emily (Clough) Bushnell.  The former was a native of New York, and a 
farmer by occupation.  About 1860 he moved to Kansas, where he died in 1887, at 
the age of eighty-eight years.  His wife, Emily Bushnell, was born at Pelham, 
Massachusetts, a daughter of Jerry and Eunice Clough.  She died August 13, 1856, 
at the age of forty years.  Mr. and Mrs. William Bushnell were the parents of 
six children, as follows:  Susannah, widow of Lewis Thompson, Fremont, Ohio; 
Wellington, an inmate of the Soldiers' Home, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Charles, 
deceased; Edwin, a veteran of the Tenth Michigan Cavalry, Coffeyville, Kansas; 
Mary, wife of Samuel Hathaway, Wood county, Ohio; and Frank E.  All the sons 
except Frank E. served in the United States army during the Civil war.

Frank E. Bushnell was born August 13, i85o, in Lake county, Ohio, when most of 
his boyhood was spent.  In 1873 he went to Plainview, Minnesota, and in the 
spring of 1878 moved from thence to Brookings county, South Dakota, filed a 
homestead claim to the southeast quarter of section 18, Alton township, and the 
fall of the same year bought a timber claim filed by other parties to the 
southwest quarter of the same section, on which the station known as "Bushnell" 
was established when the B. C. R. & N. railroad reached that point in 1883.  He 
still lives on the original homestead and now owns three hundred and twenty 
acres of land.  He gives considerable attention to breeding Shropshire sheep and 
graded English Shire horses. Since coming to this country, he has occupied a 
prominent and influential position in the multiplicity of business interests 
with which he has been more or less associated and connected, and has filled 
several of the township offices.  He has been township treasurer ever since the 
organization of the township, and has served as school treasurer for several 
years.  During the severe winter of I880-81, Mr. Bushnell had plenty of 
provisions, having previously made preparations, and he did much to relieve his 
more unfortunate neighbors, sheltering some of them in his own home.

Mr. Bushnell was married March 23, 1881, to Miss Caroline Churchill, daughter of 
Judson and Celestia (Pasco) Churchill, of Fillmore county, Minnesota.  Mrs. 
Bushnell was born in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin.  Two children have been born 
to this union upon whom they have bestowed the names of Arthur Churchill and 
Madge Ada.  Mr. and Mrs. Bushnell are members of the Methodist church and have 
always taken an active interest in temp&ance work. In i88o Mr. Bushnell helped 
to organize the school district which now includes the village of Bushnell, and 
Mrs. Bushnell, who had several years been engaged in teaching in Minnesota, was 
engaged to teach the first term in the new district, there being four pupils.  
Politically Mr. Bushnell is a Republican.