Merced County Biographies

BENJAMIN HOWARD BUSH, M. D.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        The city of Los Banos is to be congratulated on having the services of 
so accomplished and experienced a physician and surgeon as Benjamin Howard Bush, 
M.D. Though born in Nebraska, he came to California at such an early age that he 
has grown up with the progressive California spirit. He was born in Broken Bow, 
on July 11, 1884, and he was brought to California at the age of six years, and 
educated in the Santa Cruz public schools, after which he entered Cooper Medical 
College in San Francisco, graduating with the Class of 1911 as an M.D. His first 
field for practice was in Santa Cruz, where he also served as city health 
officer. When the United States was drawn into the World War, Dr. Bush enlisted 
in the U. S. Navy, was commissioned a lieutenant and served on a flotilla of 
destroyers as medical officer. Later he had shore duty in the Panama Canal zone 
for seventeen months, and was five months in the hospital at the Mare Island 
Navy Yard in California. Coming to Los Banos in 1919 he began the practice of 
medicine and established a private hospital in company with Dr. C. E. Stagner, 
of Gustine. The success he has made and the position he holds are a practical 
recognition of his skill and efficiency in his calling.
        Dr. Bush married on June 20, 1920, Miss Margaret Hugus of Wyoming, and 
they have a son, Dean Howard. Dr. Bush belongs to the Merced County Medical 
Society, the State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is 
serving as city health officer of Los Banos. His good fellowship is betokened by 
his membership in Santa Cruz Lodge No. 38, F. & A. M., and in Merced Lodge No. 
1240, B. P. O. E. He is also a member of the American Legion of Los Banos.
 
History of Merced County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1925
page 809-810