Coalville Times | 1895-07-26 | Page 3 | Asa S. Bushnell

ASA S UU8HNELL I TI Oil rho Inl 10 nonnr of Ohio Asi R Ilunlmtll who wai nominated for governor by the Ohio republican I convention I the eldest ion of Daniel nnd Harriet llushnell He wts born In Onel la county New York Hepl ii Hli I moving from there 19 Cincinnati with hi parents when a child In 1MI he came lo Hprlngfleld In which place he continued to reside The flrit three years In the city of Hprlngfleld then but n very imill town vra spent RJ n clerk In n dry good itorr after which he became I be-came a bookkeeper In 1 7 he formed a parlnenhlp with Dr John Iudlow In ABA H IIUSIIMItU he drug builnesi which ha continued until HG8 when he became Interested In the concern of which he Is I now the head under the name of the Warder I rm Y lluihnell I Cllesiner ompany During the war he was captain of Company nOne n-One Hundred and riftsecond regiment regi-ment O V 1 which compin be recruited re-cruited and serveil a II captain In I lie Hhenandoah v alley under the command of leneral Hunter In IMI In ItM lie was appointed riuartermailer generil b Jov Tornker In which position he served four year He waa one of the delegaleiatlarge to the national convention con-vention In 192 nil of which poiltlons were given him without solicitation on hll part Ills generosll I proverbial At one time he presented the city of Springfield with n patrol wagon nnd a team of horsei and at another time A bronze drinking fountain nnd ngaln dO > naled 10000 to ecuro the location near Hprlnitleld of the Ohio Slaonlo horm