The biographical encyclopœdia of Ohio of the nineteenth century:

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAzDIA.
copartnership with James LIangstaff, the mill then occupying
the site of the present depot of the Ohio & Mississippi
Railroad. This partnership terminated in 1854, when he
removed his business to the foot of Main street in Covingtoni, Kentucky, but the enterprise did not equal his expectations, and owing to unforeseen circumstances did not prosper.
lie soon after returned to the Ohio side of the river, where
he resumed the lumber and saw mill business, and continued
the same prosperously until about 187I, when he in a great
measure retired from btsiliess. He has always been most
successful in all operations, and was constantly accumulating.
Having realized a handsome competence, he retired from
active pursuits. He was a member of the City Councils in
1836, and was opposed to the license system. One of his
colleagues was the late Chief-Justice Chase, who finally
voted with himi on this subject, he at the first being the sole
opponent of the traffic. He wfas for many years a member
of the old volunteer fire department of the city. In religious
belief he follows in the footsteps of his parents, never failing to be found in the meeting-house on the first day of the
week, or at the week-day gatherings. HIe was married,
December 27th, I827, to Elizabeth Bye, of Columbiana o
county, Ohio.
'ILL, PHILIP W., M. D., Physicaii and Druggist,
Q)~ was born, February 27th, I824, in Warren county,
,~[[] Ohio, and is the fifth of ten children, whose
parents wcere James and Amelia (Harr is) Hill.
H is father was a native of Nort h Car olina, and
through life was engaged in agricultural pursuits.
In i8o4 he removed to Ohio an-d settled ill Hamilton townlship, Warren county, where he opened a farm and resided
on it until his death, which occurred in July, i863. He
was a soldier of the war of I812, attached to General Harrison's command, and participated in a number of sorties
and skirmishes with both the British and Indians during
the campaign. He married Amelia, daughter of Isaiah
Harris, a native of Campbell county, Virginia, aho was one
of the first settlers of Wirren county, Ohio. Dr. Hill's
Am ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Harris, a native of Campbell county, Virginia, nacbo wvas on
" USHNELI, REV. EBENEZER, D. D., was born of the first settlers of Wirren county, Ohio. Dr. Hi
A in Granville, Licking county, Ohio, November |early education was a limited one, but he supplemented the
I8th, 1822. He is the son of Thomas H. and| rudiments he acquired at the village school by study at
Charlotte S. Bushnell, natives of Norwichtown, home during his leisure hours, laboring on his father's farm
I Connecticut, who emigrated to Ohio in I8i6, until he attained the age of seventeen years, when he again
making the trip through Pennsylvania in wagons, attended school, devoting two years for that purpose. In
in company with a party of friends, being seven weeks on 1844, having acquired a liberal education, he commenced
the road. The paternal grandfather of our subject graduated teaching school, and was thus engaged for three years, defrom Yale in the class of I777, with Noah Webster. Rich- voting his unoccupied time to the study of medicine under
ard and Mary Bushnell, married October iith, i648, at the supervision of Dr. Alfred Noble, of Goshen, Ohio, comSaybrook, Connecticut, were ancestors on the paternal side. pleting the same in I849, having during the two preceding
When the subject of this sketch was fifteen years old, his years attended the usual course of lectures in the Ohio
father died, leaving him on his own resources. He had Medical College. Having received his diploma, he comlLid the foundation of a good education, but he desired a menced the practice of medicine in the spring of I849 at
collegiate course. He went to learn carpentering, at which Middleblorough and Osceola in Warren county, where he
trade he remained two years and nine months, until, to use continued for seven years. In I856 he went to Kansas,
his own homely but happy expression, he had "planed where he passed two years in prospecting and tr-avelling,
and sawed his way through college." He graduated at the and during his sojourn in that region was a voluminous corWestern Reserve College in J846, receiving his second respondent of Eastern papers, giving full particulars of the
degree in 1849. After graduating he taught Greek for two resources and condition of the then Territory, which was
years in the preparatory department at Hudson. The next passing through the troublous times familiarly known as the
year he had charge of this department, and the following "border ruffian" difficulties. He returned to Ohio in I858,
year he taught mathematics in the college. iHe then went and located at Madisonville, Hamilton county, where he
to Burton, Geauga county, Ohio, where -he supplied the has since resided, and resumed the practice of his profession.
pulpit of the Presbyterian Church for one year. In June, In I873 he opened a drug store, since which time he has
I85I, he was ordained and installed as pastor of this church. not been actively engaged in professional calls, but gives
He remained at Burton until April ISt, I857, when he advice in connection with the dispensing of drugs and
assumed pastoral charge of the Presbyterian Church at medicines, and the carrying on of an extensive apothecary
Fremont, Ohio, remaining there till now, firmly fixed in the store. He has also given considerable attention to building,
affections of his flock. In I87I'the'd'egree of Doctor of aid has designed and erected some of the finest residences
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Divinity was conferred upon him I)y Marietta Colle,e.
From i86o to i863 Dr. Bushnell was Superintendent of
Public Schools in Fremont. In i865 he joined the armv,
at Petersburg, Virginia, in the interests of the Christian
Commission. He has been a Trustee of the Western Reserve Colle'e since iS6i. At Hudson, in April, 185o, he
married Julia E. Baldwin, who died in September, I856.
In April, I858, he. married Cornelia K. Woodruff, in Sandusky.