Biography

03/01/1799 - 05/12/1881

BUSBEY, John, a Representative from Adams County; born, March 1, 1799 in Baltimore County, Md.; tool maker; hotel and general store proprietor, McSherrystown; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1843, 1848); school director, Conewago Township; elected, justice of the peace; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1861; proprietor, Great Invigorator Bitters; died, May 12, 1881 in Manchester, Carroll County, Maryland; interred, Conewago Chapel Basilica Cemetery, Conewago, Adams County, Pennsylvania.