When Benjamin Franklin Brush was born in December 1844, in Felicity, Franklin Township, Clermont, Ohio, United States, his father, Israel Brush, was 50 and his mother, Mary E Meeker, was 46. He married Mary Elizabeth Willis about 1873, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Tate Township, Clermont, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Sterling Township, Brown, Ohio, United States in 1900. He died on 23 October 1904, at the age of 59, and was buried in Bethel, Tate Township, Clermont, Ohio, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: metonymic occupational name for a brush maker, from Middle English brush ‘brush’ (Old French brosse ‘brushwood’).
Americanized form of German Brusch or Brüsch ‘heather, broom, brushwood’ (see Bruesch ).
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