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Below is a family biography included in The History of Darke County, Ohio published by W. H. Beers & Co. in 1880.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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ANDREW T. RUSH, manufacturer, Greenville; firm of Rush & Eby, proprietors of the Greenville Agricultural Works; Mr. R. is one of the oldest citizens of Darke County, being born in this township April 11, 1831, and is a son of W. H. Rush, a native of Pennsylvania, who located here in 1812; he died about the year 1873; the subject of our sketch was raised to farming, which occupation he has always followed in connection with milling, during which time he was also agent for the D. & U. R. R. at Rush Station, which was named in honor of his father. Upon the 18th of March, 1866, he was married to Anna Byrom, born in Washington Township April 18, 1839; she was a daughter of Silas Byrom, also an old settler; they have three children by this union, viz., Sarah O., Wm. A. and an infant. In the year 1879, the firm of Rush & Eby was organized for the purpose of supplying a long-felt want of Darke County. Their business will be chiefly confined to the manufacture of plows and all kinds of agricultural implements; they also give special attention to repairing of the same. Mr. Wm. Eby, the junior member of the above firm is a gentleman thoroughly educated in every detail of his business, and we find his reputation and skill as a superior workman is already established in Greenville. A card of their business will be found in another part of work and is the first agricultural works of Greenville.

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This family biography is one of 659 biographies included in The History of Darke County, Ohio published in 1880 by W. H. Beers & Co.  For the complete description, click here: Darke County, Ohio History and Genealogy

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