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BUSHNELL.

BUSH, Qeorge, educator, was born at Nor- wicli, Vt., June 12, 17S)G. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1818, and pursued a theological course at Princeton seminary, where he was a tutor in 1823-'24. After liis ordination as a minister of the Presbyterian church, he gave four years' service to missionary work in Indi- ana. From 1831 to 1846 lie held the chair of Hebrew language and literature at the Uni- "ersity of the city of New York. He was liberal and progi-essive in the Presbyterian chui'ch, which lie left in 1845 and joined the New Jeru- salem church. He issued in 1844 the Hierophant, a niontlily i^eriodical, and in 1845 became editor of the New Church Repository, a Swedenborgian publication. He published a Tieatiae on the Millennium (1832); Notes Critical and Practi- cal on the Book of Genesis (1838); Notes on the Book of Exodus (1841); Notes on the Book of Leviticus (1842); Notes on the Book of Joshua, and Notes on the Book of Judges (1844); The Soul, or an Inquiry into Scriptu- ral Psychology, and Anastasis (1845); Mes- mer and Swedenborg (1847); The Resurrection of Christ, New Church Miscellanies (1855); Priesthood and Clergy unknoum to Christianity (1857); Notes Critical and Practical on the Book of Nnnbers (1858); The Life of Mohammed (1858). He died in Rochester, N. Y.. Sept. 19, 1859.

BUSH, Norton, artist, was born at Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1834. He studied art, first with James Harris in his native city, and then with J. F. Crojisey in New York. In 1852 he went to California by way of the Istlimus, and his' first ideas of tropical scenery were received while crossing Nicaragua, and made a lasting impres- sion on his after career. As an amateur he painted Mount Diablo in 1857, his picture being exhibited at the Mechanics' institute in San Francisco. In 1868 he opened a studio in San Francisco, and the same year visited the Isthmus of Panama, where he obtained the material for a series of pictures. In 1875 he extended his jour- ney to Ecuador and Peru, crossed the Andes three times and made sketches of Movmt Chim- borazo; visited Lake Titicaca, in southern Peru, making sketches of the volcano El Miste and Mount Meiggs. On his return to California he painted a series of pictures of the scenery of Ecuador and Peru for John G. Meiggs, of Lon- don, which were exhibited at the rooms of the San Francisco art association in 1876, of which society he was in the same year made a director, having been elected a member in 1874. He re- ceived four gold medals from the state fair of California. Among his notable works are: Lake Nicaragua, Bay of Panama, Summit of the Sierra, and River Sa)i Juan, Nica-

ragua, Mount Chiniboiazo. Volcano El Miste, and Mount Meigtjs. Andes of Per)!, Wes- tern Slope of Cordilleras, Cordilleras of Ecua- dor.

BUSHNELL, Asa Smith, governor of Ohio, was born at Rome, Oneida county, N. Y., Sept. IG, 1834; son of Daniel Bushnell, and grandson of Jason Bushnell, a soldier of the revolution, and a member of a Connecticut family. He removed to Sjjringfield, Ohio, in 1851, where, without friends or money, he entered upon his busi- ness career, being suc- cessively a dry-goods clerk, book-keeper, and em ployee and member of a manu- facturing firm. In 1885 he was made chairman of the Re publican state execu- tive committee, which elected Joseph B F o r a k e r governor, and re-elected John Sherman to the United States senate. In 1895 he accepted from the Republican state convention the nomina- tion for governor, and was elected by a plurality of 92,622 over James E. Campbell. He was re- elected for a second term serving 1897-'9. He was a delegate-at-large to the Republican national conventions at Minneapolis in 1892, and at St. Louis in 1896.

BUSHNELL, David, inventor, Avas born in Saybrook, Conn., about the year 1742. Upon the death of his father, he sold his interest in the farm and devoted the proceeds to his education. Assisted by the village pastor, lie fitted himself for college, and was graduated at Yale in 1775. He made a study of submarine warfare and navi- gation, and constructed a diving boat, which resembled two tortoise shells, and was for that reason called The American Turtle. A full de- scription of the boat and torpedo will be found in the Transactions of the American philosophi- cal society, and in SiUiman's American Journal of Science (1820). In addition to this torpedo, Mr. Bushnell invented a number of devices for the destruction of the enemy's ships, but his "internals," as they were called by the British, failed of accomiilishing their purpose, owing to a series of unfortunate accidents. In 1777 he attempted to destroy the Cerberus, a frigate at anchor off New London, Conn. The machine, becoming fixed to a schooner at anchor astern the frigate, exploded, demolishing that vessel and killing several men. In December, 1777, he