Mattie Bush (1874 - 1948)

Born 1874 in Monroe County, Pennsylvania

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Died 1948 at about age 74 in Monroe County, Pennsylvania

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1880 Census// Name: Philip M. Bush/ Age: 68/ Birth Year: abt 1812/ Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Home in 1880: Smithfield, Monroe, Pennsylvania/ Race: White/ Gender: Male/ Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)/ Marital Status: Married/ Spouse's Name: Sarah J. Bush/ Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Occupation: Physician & Farmer/ Household Members:// Name Age/ Philip M. Bush 68/ Sarah J. Bush 64/ Albina Bush 41/ Edwin Bush 35/ Sarah Bush 33/ Maggie C. Bush 6/ Mattie L. Bush/

1900 Census Name: Edwin Bush/ Age: 55/ Birth Date: May 1845/ Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Home in 1900: Smithfield, Monroe, Pennsylvania/ Race: White/ Gender: Male/ Relation to Head of House: Head/ Marital Status: Married/ Spouse's Name: Sarah Bush/ Marriage Year: 1872/ Years Married: 28/ Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Household Members: // Name Age/ Edwin Bush 55/ Sarah Bush 53// Maggie C Bush 26/ Mattie L Bush 26/ Albina L Bush 62/ Charles Balmoss 22/

1910 Census// Name: Edwin Bush/ Age in 1910: 64/ Birth Year: abt 1846/ Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Home in 1910: Smithfield, Monroe, Pennsylvania/ Race: White/ Gender: Male/ Relation to Head of House: Head/ Marital Status: Married/ Spouse's Name: Sarah Bush/ Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Household Members:/ Name Age/ Edwin Bush 64/ Sarah Bush 63/ Mattie Labar Bush 35/ Albina Labar Bush 71/ George R Turn 54/

1920 Census// Name: Edwin Bush/ Age: 74/ Birth Year: abt 1846/ Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Home in 1920: Smithfield, Monroe, Pennsylvania/ Race: White/ Gender: Male/ Relation to Head of House: Head/ Marital Status: Married/ Spouse's Name: Sarah Bush/ Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania/ Home Owned: Own/ Able to Read: Yes/ Able to Write: Yes/ Household Members:/ Name Age/ Edwin Bush 74/ Sarah Bush 73/ Mattie L Bush 45/ Albina L Bush 82/

From the Commemorative Biographical Record published in 1900 (Philip Bush Family)

HORACE BUSH MD of East Stroudsburg Monroe county has won an enviable reputation as a practitioner there and elsewhere and although his attention is at present devoted to the drug business he is frequently called in council in important cases.

He comes of a family which has furnished several able workers to the medical profession and his father the late Dr Philip M Bush, practiced in Monroe county successfully for more than half a century. The family originated in Holland the name being Bosch in the old records and our subject's ancestors seem to have settled first near Esopus or Rondout NY on the Hudson while later generations following the tide of progress came down the Delaware and located on the plain at the present site of Shawnee.

Dr Philip M Bush our subject's father was born in Stroud township Monroe county in 1811 and studied medicine with Dr Herring of Hamilton township then a part of Northampton county. During the winters of 1833 and 1834 he attended the medical department of Jefferson College in Philadelphia. On leaving that institution he engaged in practice at Craig's Meadow, Monroe county.

In 1838 he removed to Marshall's Creek a little hamlet about six miles north of Stroudsburg where he spent his remaining years his death occurring in 1890. He had a large practice and his keen and active mind kept him well abreast of the advance in medical science. As a citizen he was held in high esteem and in 1847 he represented his locality in the State Legislature but he afterward declined all offers of official position.

He married Miss Sarah J La Bar a daughter of George LaBar and a member of an old Monroe county family.

Of their eight children the first, Francis died at the age of seven years.

Samuel resides near Craig's Meadows.

Miss Albina resides at that place.

Robert settled in Trenton NJ.

Edwin is a farmer in Monroe County.

Lewis now deceased is mentioned more fully below.

Horace our subject is the seventh in order of birth.

Van L a resident of Stroudsburg follows the occupation of carpenter and builder.

Lewis Bush MD brother of our subject was born June 3 1848 at Marshall's Creek and after pursuing an elementary course of study in the district schools near the homestead he attended the Stroudsburg Seminary taught by Mrs Lizzie Malvern and Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, Luzerne Co, Penn. In 1859 he began the study of medicine with his father and later he took a course in Jefferson Medical School at Philadelphia graduating in 1872. For a few months of that year he had an office at Delaware Water Gap but then he located at East Stroudsburg where he continued in successful practice until his death in October 1892. In April 1883 he formed a partnership with Dr Irvine R Bush a graduate of that year from Jefferson Medical College. Dr Lewis Bush manifested in many ways the public spirit and progressive mind which has always characterized the family taking especial interest in educational and religious movements. For three years he served as school director and forty two years he was secretary of the school board. Financially he was successful and he owned valuable real estate in East Stroudsburg including the rink. In 1874 he married Miss Anna Louisa Huntsberger daughter of Joseph Huntsberger of Centerville Northampton Co Penn To this union was born one child who died in infancy.

Our subject first saw the light February 3 1850 at the old homestead at Marshall's Creek and received his literary education in the local schools and the seminary at Kingston. For some time he taught school successfully while reading medicine with his father and brother, and after a course in Jefferson Medical College, he received in 1875, the degree of MD. On beginning practice he spent one year at East Stroudsburg and two years at Marshall's Creek and then he located in Bradford county where he passed eleven years. Since that time he has made his home at East Stroudsburg where he purchased his present drug store.

He is a man of fine mental powers of a thoughtful and reflective turn and is keenly interested in all questions and movements which affect the welfare of the community. In 1875 he married Miiss Laura P Loder daughter of AW Loder of East Stroudsburg.

SAMUEL L BUSH one of the leading and representative farmers of Smithfield township Monroe county was born on his present farm in January 1836 and is a son of Dr Philip M and Sarah Jane Labar Bush. The father was also a native of Monroe county born near Spragueville in Stroud township in April I811 and was a son of James and Margarite (Van Vliet Bush) who at an early day located on Brodhead creek near Spragueville. In their family were eight children;

James who removed to Ohio;

Vancuran;

Lydia, wife of Jacob Shank of Ohio;

Jane, wife of Dr Herring of Lewistown, Penn.;

Philip M, father of our subject;

Annie, wife of George Ransbury of East Stroudsburg, Monroe county; Elijah who married and located near Stroudsburg where his death occurred; and

Daniel who married Betsy Smith and lived on the old homestead in Stroud township.

Dr Philip M. Bush was educated in the schools of Bloomfield NJ and studied medicine with his brother in law, Dr Herring. Prior to his marriage in I835 he successfully engaged in teaching in the public schools of Monroe county but after that event he located in Smithfield and gave his attention to the practice of his chosen profession. In 1838 he purchased the Beckley property at that place, and for a number of years was agent for the sale of land belonging to Mr Beckley an English landholder in Pike and Monroe counties. He bought 580 acres of timber land belonging to that estate and made a number of improvements thereon in the way of buildings. He became a prosperous business man owning and operating a sawmill and also a large grist mill floating his lumber down the Delaware river to the Philadelphia markets. This he carried on in connection with the practice of medicine up to the time of his death in 1889. His wife who had shared with him the hardships of his early life passed away in 1885. She was born in Middle Smithfield township Monroe county when it formed a part of Northampton county and was a daughter of George and Sarah Labar representatives of prominent pioneer families of Monroe and Northampton counties. To Dr Bush and his wife were born eight Children; seven sons and one daughter, and the sons were pallbearers at their mother's funeral.

Our subject is the eldest of the family and all were born on the homestead in Smithfield township Monroe county.

Albina the only daughter attended the public schools and Stroudsburg Seminary and is still living on the old homestead. She has been a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church for many years and takes an active part in all Church work.

(3) Francis died at the age of four years.

(4) Robert B married Susan Eilenberger of Middle Smithfield township, and located in Scranton Penn where he engaged in business for some years. After his return to Smithfield township his wife died leaving three children Lorenzo, Clinton and Harvey. Later he became a resident of Trenton NJ where he has married again and still resides.

(5) Edwin received a good common school education in the local schools and at Stroudsburg. He married Sarah Turn of Middle Smithfield township and resides on the old homestead which he and his sister own. He has twin daughters Maggie and Mattie bright young ladies who are attending the normal school at East Stroudsburg.

(6) Dr Lewis Bush received a fine education in the schools of Stroudsburg and Kingston, Penn., and subsequently was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; after which he engaged in the practice of his profession at Delaware Water Gap and later at East Stroudsburg, Penn. He died at the latter place in 1892 leaving a widow who in her maidenliood was Louisa Hunchberger, of Centerville, Northampton county.

(7) Dr Horace Bush married Laura Loder of East Stroudsburg, and engaged in the practice of medicine at Marshall Creek, Monroe county, and later at Wyalusing, Bradford County, Penn. for a few years but now resides in East Stroudsburg where he owns and conducts a large drug store.

(8) Van Bush, a carpenter of East Stroudsburg married Aurilla Rockefeller, daughter of Abram Rockefeller of that place and they have two children George Labar and Lula.

Samuel L Bush of this review grew to manhood on the home farm in Smithfield township, Monroe county and had charge of the same until his marriage when he located upon another of his father’s farms comprising 124 acres which he purchased in 1887. This he has placed under excellent cultivation and improved with good buildings making it one of the most attractive country homes in Monroe county.

In 1862 he was united in marriage with Miss Minerva Eilenberger of Smithfield township a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Eilenberger, old and prominent citizens of the township. Six children blessed this union all born on the present home in Smithfield township.

Bertha J born in 1863 was a very promising young girl she died at the age of twelve years.

Hattie C, born in 1865 is now the wife of Harry Fisher of Stroudsburg proprietor of “Monroe Cottage”.

Austin E, born in 1867 married May Suttee of New York City and is engaged in agricultural pursuits upon a part of his father's farm having purchased one of the houses on the same.

Henrietta died in childhood.

Edith May born in 1877 is a graduate of the East Stroudsburg Normal School and is now one of the successful teachers of Smitlitield township. She is an accomplished young lady and a great favorite among her friends.

Politically Mr Bush is a Jacksonian Democrat as was also his father who took quite an active and prominent part in local politics and for one term represented Monroe county in the State Legislature. Religiously our subject and his family are leading members of the Presbyterian Church of Middle Smithfield, in which he is one of the elders and they are also quite prominent socially being among the most highly respected citizens of the community in which they make their home.

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