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"From Thomas Jefferson to Bushrod Washington,
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Bushrod Washington
Life Story: 1765-1829
A learned judge whose tireless pursuit of legal knowledge was the keystone of his judgments as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Background
Bushrod Washington was born at Bushfield in Westmoreland County, Virginia on June 5, 1762. His father, John “Jack” Augustine Washington, was the younger brother of George Washington and a delegate to the Virginia legislature and his mother, Hannah Bushrod Washington, was the daughter of a prominent Virginia family. Bushrod was the favorite nephew of his Uncle George who would become commander of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States. The Washingtons believed all their children, including their daughters, should receive a quality education. Thus, Bushrod was taught by private tutor until he was 16, when he moved to finish his studies at a school in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In 1780, he attended William and Mary College to study law under the first law professor in the United States, George Wythe, gaining a more extensive formal le
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Bushrod Washington Wilson
Bushrod Washington "Bush" Wilson (1824–1900) was a pioneer, business leader, and local politician in the American state of Oregon. He is best remembered as one of the pioneering first citizens of the town of Corvallis, Oregon, and as the founder of the Willamette Valley & Coast Railroad (WV&C), established in 1874.
Biography
Early years
Bushrod Washington Wilson was born July 18, 1824, at Columbia Falls, Maine, into a family which on his paternal side dated its American roots back to the immigration of Gowan Wilson from Scotland in 1657.[1] His mother was a member of the Pineo family, which dated its North American roots back to French Huguenots who emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1617.[1]
When Wilson was 10 his father moved to New York City to work as a millwright.[1] Bush went to school until he was 12,[2] at which time he left to go to work at an early age, taking a job as an office boy for Cornelius Vanderbilt and making the acquaintance of young newspaper publisher Horace Greel
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