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Melvin
Rush In Melvin Rush Fairview Township, Jasper County, has a
farmer who believes in doing well whatever is worth doing at all, and although
he leads a quiet life, tending to his own business, he never withholds his help
from worthy public enterprises and he believes in each individual asserting his
rights. Mr. Rush was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1854. He is the son of Jefferson and Elizabeth (McClintock) Rush, both natives of the same locality in which the subject was born, the father's birth occurring in 1823. There they grew up, were educated in the pioneer schools and there they were married, and they farmed on his father's place, the grain raised on this farm being used to make corn whisky in the distillery of Peter Rush, grandfather of the subject. In the spring of 1855 Jefferson Rush and family moved to Allamakee County, Iowa, and there purchased a small farm. Selling this in 1866, the family moved to Fairview Township, Jasper County, and here bought eighty acres. The father was first a Whig and later a Republican, and he belonged to the Baptist Church. His death occurred in 1904, his wife having died in 1902. They were the parents of four children, named as follows: Marshall, deceased; Melvin, of this review; Mrs. Rebecca Walker; Mrs. Lydia Montgomery. Melvin
Rush grew up on the home farm and when but a boy he knew the meaning of hard
work. He attended the Capital Prairie district school. He has spent
nearly all his life on the farm here. His father not being robust, the
son tended the place after he reached maturity and he is now the owner of the
same, and has kept it under a good state of improvement and cultivation. When
thirty years of age the subject took a claim in Sheridan County, Nebraska, and
lived there two years, but finally lost the claim through the trickery of
others. Politically, Mr. Rush is a Republican, but he has never manifested a desire to be a public man. He was married on January 22, 1889, to Rachael Ogg, who was born in Pennsylvania, the daughter of George Ogg, who came to Jasper County in 1866. To this union two children have been born, William M. and Byrdie Eva. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, B.F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912, p. 906. |
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