Alley, B. F. and Munro-Fraser, J. P.  "History of Clarke County, Washington
Territory : compiled from the most authentic sources ; also biographical
sketches of its pioneers and prominent citizens." Portland, Or. : Washington
Publishing Co., 1885.

DANIEL WEBSTER BUSH	- Was born in Ohio county, Indiana, June 15, 1832, and when
nineteen years of age removed to Peoria, Illinios, and eighteen months
thereafter to Iowa, where he remained during one winter.  In 1853 he crossed the
plains to the Pacific Coast and taking up a Donation claim on Showalter Bay, on
the Willopah river, there resided until 1855.  At this time he enlisted in
Company K, Captain John R. Jackson, and after three month's service, re-enlisted
in Company C, Captain B. L. Henderson, with which he served six months.  To this
gentleman is the credit of having driven the first wagon over the Zinco
mountains, during his employment under the government, and, upon his return from
the arduous duty just mentioned he was detailed to drive Colonel Steptoe's
baggage wagons to Walla Walla.  These arduous duties over he returned to his
homestead for a spell and then undertook the contract to carry the mail from Oak
Point to Round Valley.  This was a duty requiring much knowledge of woodcraft,
for on his first trip he lost the way and was nearly three days and nights in
getting to Pumphrey's, on the Cowlitz, and this notwithstanding the fact that
the route had been traveled, and the trees blazed, some years before by Governor
Abernethy and Judge Strong.  Holding the contract for nine months, he came by
the Columbia and Cowlitz rivers, until a trail was cut.  In September, 1858, Mr.
Bush married Alice La Du, and returned to his home on Shoalwalter Bay, where he
resided until June 15, 1863, when he came to his present property on the
Columbia river, Cowlitz county, known as Mount Coffin Landing, where in 1869 he
erected a warehouse, and in 1870, another, both of which, however, were
destroyed by fire in 1884.  In 1885 he erected a new structure one hundred and
eight by sixty-four feet in dimensions, useful, ornamental and well arranged.
Mr. Bush has a surviving family of twelve children.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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