Rochester Democrat Chronicle - December 12, 1885
THE RANKS THINNING
Another of the Old Settlers Passes Away
-The death of John F. Bush
It will not be long before the whole body of those who may be called in any true sense the pioneers of Rochester shall have disappeared from our midst. One of the number departed yesterday, for the unknown land, and in the death of John F. Bush the oldest inhabitants will mourn the loss of a comrade of their early days. Mr. Bush was born in Sheffield, Mass., in 1807, and came to this place in 1821, going at once into the employ of his brother-in-law, Ira West, who kept a store for the sale of general merchandise on the west side of State street, where the Ellwanger & Barry block now stands. Within a few years afterward the late Thomas Kempshall became interested in the concern, and at the death of Mr. West, in 1828, Mr. Bush, having just arrived at his majority, was admitted into partnership, the firm name being Kempshall & Bush. In a little time the new firm branched out into various enterprises, building the foundry on Brown's race, which was afterward known as the Kidd foundry - the first manufacturing establishment erected in the young city - and going quite extensively into the mill-furnishing business, equipping with stoves, machinery, etc., many of the largest mills in this part of the state. As Rochester expanded in area and population, new fields of business and industry were opened, and into many of these Mr. Bush entered., with varying fortune, though bringing to bear in all cases unusual shrewdness and the most untiring activity of mind and body. In 1869 he became associated with his son Horace in the manufacture of staves and continued therein till 1877, when his health failing, he retired from business. During these last eight years, he has been an invalid, with continually increasing infirmities, never complaining, but bearing his pain and weakness with a constant serenity which nothing could disturb.
While possessed of much public spirit, and always interested in the affairs of his fellow-men, Mr. Bush was, nevertheless, of so retiring a disposition and had such a dread of notoriety that never, throughout his long life, would he seek or even accept a nomination for any political office, though he always manifested much zeal in promoting the success of the Whig, and then the Republican party. He became connected with the First Presbyterian church in 1835, and was in its communion from that time until his death. In 1829 he married Miss Mary Stone, who was the first white female child born within the limits of what is now the city of Rochester, and who died in 1867.
Four children survive him - Horace F., William C., Daniel W., and Mrs. Mary S. Porter.
THE RANKS THINNING
Another of the Old Settlers Passes Away
-The death of John F. Bush
It will not be long before the whole body of those who may be called in any true sense the pioneers of Rochester shall have disappeared from our midst. One of the number departed yesterday, for the unknown land, and in the death of John F. Bush the oldest inhabitants will mourn the loss of a comrade of their early days. Mr. Bush was born in Sheffield, Mass., in 1807, and came to this place in 1821, going at once into the employ of his brother-in-law, Ira West, who kept a store for the sale of general merchandise on the west side of State street, where the Ellwanger & Barry block now stands. Within a few years afterward the late Thomas Kempshall became interested in the concern, and at the death of Mr. West, in 1828, Mr. Bush, having just arrived at his majority, was admitted into partnership, the firm name being Kempshall & Bush. In a little time the new firm branched out into various enterprises, building the foundry on Brown's race, which was afterward known as the Kidd foundry - the first manufacturing establishment erected in the young city - and going quite extensively into the mill-furnishing business, equipping with stoves, machinery, etc., many of the largest mills in this part of the state. As Rochester expanded in area and population, new fields of business and industry were opened, and into many of these Mr. Bush entered., with varying fortune, though bringing to bear in all cases unusual shrewdness and the most untiring activity of mind and body. In 1869 he became associated with his son Horace in the manufacture of staves and continued therein till 1877, when his health failing, he retired from business. During these last eight years, he has been an invalid, with continually increasing infirmities, never complaining, but bearing his pain and weakness with a constant serenity which nothing could disturb.
While possessed of much public spirit, and always interested in the affairs of his fellow-men, Mr. Bush was, nevertheless, of so retiring a disposition and had such a dread of notoriety that never, throughout his long life, would he seek or even accept a nomination for any political office, though he always manifested much zeal in promoting the success of the Whig, and then the Republican party. He became connected with the First Presbyterian church in 1835, and was in its communion from that time until his death. In 1829 he married Miss Mary Stone, who was the first white female child born within the limits of what is now the city of Rochester, and who died in 1867.
Four children survive him - Horace F., William C., Daniel W., and Mrs. Mary S. Porter.
Rochester Democrat Chronicle - December 12, 1885
THE RANKS THINNING
Another of the Old Settlers Passes Away
-The death of John F. Bush
It will not be long before the whole body of those who may be called in any true sense the pioneers of Rochester shall have disappeared from our midst. One of the number departed yesterday, for the unknown land, and in the death of John F. Bush the oldest inhabitants will mourn the loss of a comrade of their early days. Mr. Bush was born in Sheffield, Mass., in 1807, and came to this place in 1821, going at once into the employ of his brother-in-law, Ira West, who kept a store for the sale of general merchandise on the west side of State street, where the Ellwanger & Barry block now stands. Within a few years afterward the late Thomas Kempshall became interested in the concern, and at the death of Mr. West, in 1828, Mr. Bush, having just arrived at his majority, was admitted into partnership, the firm name being Kempshall & Bush. In a little time the new firm branched out into various enterprises, building the foundry on Brown's race, which was afterward known as the Kidd foundry - the first manufacturing establishment erected in the young city - and going quite extensively into the mill-furnishing business, equipping with stoves, machinery, etc., many of the largest mills in this part of the state. As Rochester expanded in area and population, new fields of business and industry were opened, and into many of these Mr. Bush entered., with varying fortune, though bringing to bear in all cases unusual shrewdness and the most untiring activity of mind and body. In 1869 he became associated with his son Horace in the manufacture of staves and continued therein till 1877, when his health failing, he retired from business. During these last eight years, he has been an invalid, with continually increasing infirmities, never complaining, but bearing his pain and weakness with a constant serenity which nothing could disturb.
While possessed of much public spirit, and always interested in the affairs of his fellow-men, Mr. Bush was, nevertheless, of so retiring a disposition and had such a dread of notoriety that never, throughout his long life, would he seek or even accept a nomination for any political office, though he always manifested much zeal in promoting the success of the Whig, and then the Republican party. He became connected with the First Presbyterian church in 1835, and was in its communion from that time until his death. In 1829 he married Miss Mary Stone, who was the first white female child born within the limits of what is now the city of Rochester, and who died in 1867.
Four children survive him - Horace F., William C., Daniel W., and Mrs. Mary S. Porter.
THE RANKS THINNING
Another of the Old Settlers Passes Away
-The death of John F. Bush
It will not be long before the whole body of those who may be called in any true sense the pioneers of Rochester shall have disappeared from our midst. One of the number departed yesterday, for the unknown land, and in the death of John F. Bush the oldest inhabitants will mourn the loss of a comrade of their early days. Mr. Bush was born in Sheffield, Mass., in 1807, and came to this place in 1821, going at once into the employ of his brother-in-law, Ira West, who kept a store for the sale of general merchandise on the west side of State street, where the Ellwanger & Barry block now stands. Within a few years afterward the late Thomas Kempshall became interested in the concern, and at the death of Mr. West, in 1828, Mr. Bush, having just arrived at his majority, was admitted into partnership, the firm name being Kempshall & Bush. In a little time the new firm branched out into various enterprises, building the foundry on Brown's race, which was afterward known as the Kidd foundry - the first manufacturing establishment erected in the young city - and going quite extensively into the mill-furnishing business, equipping with stoves, machinery, etc., many of the largest mills in this part of the state. As Rochester expanded in area and population, new fields of business and industry were opened, and into many of these Mr. Bush entered., with varying fortune, though bringing to bear in all cases unusual shrewdness and the most untiring activity of mind and body. In 1869 he became associated with his son Horace in the manufacture of staves and continued therein till 1877, when his health failing, he retired from business. During these last eight years, he has been an invalid, with continually increasing infirmities, never complaining, but bearing his pain and weakness with a constant serenity which nothing could disturb.
While possessed of much public spirit, and always interested in the affairs of his fellow-men, Mr. Bush was, nevertheless, of so retiring a disposition and had such a dread of notoriety that never, throughout his long life, would he seek or even accept a nomination for any political office, though he always manifested much zeal in promoting the success of the Whig, and then the Republican party. He became connected with the First Presbyterian church in 1835, and was in its communion from that time until his death. In 1829 he married Miss Mary Stone, who was the first white female child born within the limits of what is now the city of Rochester, and who died in 1867.
Four children survive him - Horace F., William C., Daniel W., and Mrs. Mary S. Porter.
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