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WILLIAM BARD BRUSH, merchant, Turtle Creek, was born at Caveltsville, Westmoreland county, June 11, 1860, a son of Daniel S. Brush, and a grandson of Robert Brush, an early settler in Westmoreland county. Daniel S. was born in that county, and married Susan, daughter of Joseph Mehaffey, who came from Ireland to Westmoreland county, where Mrs. Brush was born in 1828. Daniel Brush was a tanner and shoemaker. In 1861 he enlisted for one year in Co. B, 56th P. V., and on the expiration of his term re-enlisted for the war. He served with the Army of the Potomac, sharing in all its hardships and battles until his right arm was taken off by a fragment of a shell, before Petersburg. He died in 1871, at the age of forty-nine; his widow still resides at Caveltsville. William B. Brush was reared in his native village, and attended the public schools. After serving a short time as clerk in a store at Larimer’s Station, he commenced, in 1880, in mercantile business at Stewart’s Station, where he was very successful. In 1887 he bought the stock of C. A. Black at Turtle Creek; is doing a profitable business, and carries about five thousand dollars’ worth of general merchandise. He is connected with the U. P. Church, and is a republican. In September, 1885, he married Ida Haymaker, and they have one son, Harry Berlin.