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ISAAC RUSH, retired farmer; P. O. Greenville. Among the early pioneers of Darke County the gentleman whose name heads this sketch is entitled to a place in the front ranks; he was born in Trenton, Butler Co., Ohio, Dec. 8, 1815; he was a son of Jacob Rush, who was born in Pennsylvania, and was among the early pioneers of Darke County; locating here in 1829 upon the place where Isaac Rush now lives; in 1830 he entered this land, where he passed the remainder of his days; his death occurring in 1842. He married Jemima House in Butler County; she was born in Warren County, and died in Darke County in 1854; they were the parents of seven children, of whom three are deceased. Isaac Rush came to Darke County in 1829, Greenville, at that time, containing very few buildings, a large part of the land upon which the city now stands being covered by a dense thicket; he assisted his father until 1836, when he devoted four years to carpentering, and in 1840 took charge of the home farm, upon which he has lived, with the exception of the above four years, for a period of half a century; he now has 85 acres reaching to the corporation limits, a part of which he has refused $300 per acre for, during his residence here he has witnessed the marvelous growth of a town of some two hundred inhabitants, spread out to be a city of some four thousand, and which has already extended to, and obtained a foothold upon his farm. He married Nancy Swisher in August, 1843; she was born in Montgomery County, and in 1830 came to Darke County; they are the parents of five children, viz.: Mary, Abram, John, Ie and Alaska.