Biography

01/25/1791 - 02/09/1873

BUSH, George, a Representative from Pike and Wayne Counties; born, January 25, 1791 in Damascus, Wayne County, Pa.; farmer; lumberman; canal boat steersman; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1843 and 1844 terms; justice of the peace; elected, commissioner, Wayne County; gubernatorial appointee, commissioner, Improving the Navigation of the Delaware River; died, February 9, 1873 in Damascus, Wayne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hillside Cemetery, Damascus, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.