"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 486.
 
JAMES A. BUSHNELL
     Was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, July 27, 1826, removing with his
parents when quite young to Ashtabula county, Ohio, moving again in his
thirteenth year to Harrison county, where, his father dying in 1841, the mother
with five children once more changed their residence, settled near Kirksville,
Missouri, where the subject of this sketch was married September 7, 1849, to
Miss Elizabeth C. Adkins.  In the spring of 1852 leaving his wife and child, he
started with an ox team to make a home in Oregon, and arrived in Salem September
ninth; spending the winter of that year in the mines of California, he returned
in the fall of 1855 to meet his family, and settled upon the donation claim now
occupied by Wm. McConnell, about six miles south of Junction City, from which he
removed in 1865 to the farm which he at present owns, situated four miles in a
southeasterly direction from Junction City, comprising about six hundred acres
of the finest land.  His first wife dying, January 2, 1868, he married Mrs.
Sarah E. Page, of Halsey, April 2, 1870.  Leaving the farm in 1875 he moved into
town and erected the residence, a view of which -- as well as of the warehouse
which he owns and operates -- appear in this work.
 
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