Bush, Samuel

Bush, Samuel a Free-will Baptist minister, was born at Edgecomb, Me., April 15,1797. From 1823 to 1827 he followed the sea, and in the latter year moved to Montville, Me. In 1835 he was converted, and in 1839 was licensed to preach by the Edgecomb Quarterly Meeting, and subsequently ordained in the Whitefield Church. He performed a large amount of evangelical labor in Clinton, Smithfield, Stark, Mercer, Belgrave, and other places in Maine, and was honored by his Master in his work. He died in Edgecomb, May 30,1875. See Morning Star, Feb.: 23, 1876. (J. C. S.)