BENJAMIN J. BUSHMAN - Biography

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This biography appears on page 636 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

BENJAMIN J. BUSHMAN, saloon and restaurant, Burlington; born in, Germany
in 1844 - his parents moved to Wheatland, Kenosha Co., when he was an
infant, and located there; his father, B. Bushman, bought 230 acres of
land in Sections 32 and 33, built a residence and barns, and otherwise
improved the land; he died there in 1878, and his wife still lives on
the farm with part of her family. The son, Benjamin J., married in
Wheatland, April 19, 1872, Elizabeth Brenckman, of Burlington; they have
two children -- William and Albert; he moved to Burlington in 1873, and
opened business in a restaurant and saloon close to the R. R. depot;
owns the house he lives in and tbree lots.