California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


MORGAN RUSH was born on the old Rush homestead five miles north of Visalia, March 13, 
1863. His father, Isaac Rush, a native of Tennessee, was the son of a farmer and was trained 
to the practical duties incident to such a life. In young manhood he removed to Arkansas, 
where he married, and from which state, in the early '50s, he crossed the plains to California. 
Upon his arrival in the state he located on the property now owned by his son in Tulare county, 
entering the land and proceeding to a practical improvement and cultivation of the farm. He 
became an extensive and successful stockman and was one of the prominent men of his day in 
this section. His death occurred in Texas, at the age of seventy years. Mrs. Rush, formerly 
Mary G. Parker, was a native of Arkansas and a daughter of Hiram Parker, who removed from 
Tennessee, his native state, to Arkansas, where he died. Another member of this family is the 
late Basil G. Parker, of Tulare county, who was a cousin of Mrs. Rush. She survives her hus- 
band and makes her home on the old farm. Of her six sons and five daughters all attained 
maturity, while seven are now living. 

The fourth in the family of his parents, Morgan Rush was reared on the old home place, re- 
ceiving his scholastic training in the public schools in the vicinity. From boyhood he fol- 
lowed farming, when still youthful assuming charge of the place for his mother, as he was 
the oldest living son, and he remained at home for about twenty years as manager of the prop- 
erty. In 1898 he bought the two hundred and forty acres which forms his property, located on 
section 5, township 18, range 25, four and a half miles north of Visalia, where he now engages 
in farming and stock-raising. He has twenty-five acres devoted to alfalfa, and is largely in- 
terested in the dairy business, besides which he also engages in stock-raising in the mountains, 
and owns three hundred and twenty-nine acres in Harmon valley, Fresno county, on section 18, 
township 13, range 25, eighteen miles from Sanger, where he has the greater part of his cattle 
and hogs. 

In Fresno Air. Rush married Rosalie Bennett, a native of Tulare county, and the daughter of 
Booker and Lizzie Bennett, residents of Fresno. Politically Mr. Rush is a Democrat and frater- 
nally is identified with the Woodmen of the World of Visalia. All his life a resident of this 
county, with the exception of four years, from 1900 to 1904, which he spent on a farm in 
Fresno county, Mr. Rush has won the highest esteem from those who have known him, his 
ability in his line of work winning the commendation of the farmers, and for his integrity and 
manhood the respect of all.