Son of James S and Drusilla Bushong
Hiram first married Mary Ann "Naamah" Salsberry and they had four children. After Naamah died, he married Frances Reed Stansell.
Hiram was born in Columbus Grove, Ohio, but lived many other places. He is found in Celina, Collin County, Texas; Hunt, Kerr, Texas: Portales, Roosevelt County, New Mexico: and was last noted in South Bend, St Joseph, Indiana.
When he was a boy, he had an accordion with him in photos taken over the years. He lived at home with his parents, James and Drusilla Bushong in Columbus Grove, Ohio, until 1871 when he married Naamah Salsberry.
Sometime in the 1890's Hiram went into business with his nephew, John Chester Bushong. This was Chester's (and probably Hiram's)first business venture, which followed his attendance at an itinerant magic lantern exhibition, in which he was greatly interested. Although Chester's father (Hiram's older brother John Stout Bushong) objected to the project he still helped him, and Hiram Bushong, purchase the necessary outfit. Hiram being the older partner in the show business was the advance agent, the younger worked the lantern at the village school houses and other halls on that circuit. When about a hundred miles from home, Celina, Texas, after two particularly bad weeks of rather slim business, Hiram must have done a good job, drumming up customers, because Bushong's Magic Lantern Show, packed a crowded house and the future looked promising. But during the exhibition a couple of wild and drunken cowboys started in to "shoot up" the show, and before they left the hall the audience had retired in haste. Every window in the room was smashed as well as the magic lantern. Even the receipts at the box office disappeared during the melee. There was nothing for Hiram and young Chester to do but to start for home.
Hiram and Naamah had four children.
Hiram first married Mary Ann "Naamah" Salsberry and they had four children. After Naamah died, he married Frances Reed Stansell.
Hiram was born in Columbus Grove, Ohio, but lived many other places. He is found in Celina, Collin County, Texas; Hunt, Kerr, Texas: Portales, Roosevelt County, New Mexico: and was last noted in South Bend, St Joseph, Indiana.
When he was a boy, he had an accordion with him in photos taken over the years. He lived at home with his parents, James and Drusilla Bushong in Columbus Grove, Ohio, until 1871 when he married Naamah Salsberry.
Sometime in the 1890's Hiram went into business with his nephew, John Chester Bushong. This was Chester's (and probably Hiram's)first business venture, which followed his attendance at an itinerant magic lantern exhibition, in which he was greatly interested. Although Chester's father (Hiram's older brother John Stout Bushong) objected to the project he still helped him, and Hiram Bushong, purchase the necessary outfit. Hiram being the older partner in the show business was the advance agent, the younger worked the lantern at the village school houses and other halls on that circuit. When about a hundred miles from home, Celina, Texas, after two particularly bad weeks of rather slim business, Hiram must have done a good job, drumming up customers, because Bushong's Magic Lantern Show, packed a crowded house and the future looked promising. But during the exhibition a couple of wild and drunken cowboys started in to "shoot up" the show, and before they left the hall the audience had retired in haste. Every window in the room was smashed as well as the magic lantern. Even the receipts at the box office disappeared during the melee. There was nothing for Hiram and young Chester to do but to start for home.
Hiram and Naamah had four children.
Son of James S and Drusilla Bushong
Hiram first married Mary Ann "Naamah" Salsberry and they had four children. After Naamah died, he married Frances Reed Stansell.
Hiram was born in Columbus Grove, Ohio, but lived many other places. He is found in Celina, Collin County, Texas; Hunt, Kerr, Texas: Portales, Roosevelt County, New Mexico: and was last noted in South Bend, St Joseph, Indiana.
When he was a boy, he had an accordion with him in photos taken over the years. He lived at home with his parents, James and Drusilla Bushong in Columbus Grove, Ohio, until 1871 when he married Naamah Salsberry.
Sometime in the 1890's Hiram went into business with his nephew, John Chester Bushong. This was Chester's (and probably Hiram's)first business venture, which followed his attendance at an itinerant magic lantern exhibition, in which he was greatly interested. Although Chester's father (Hiram's older brother John Stout Bushong) objected to the project he still helped him, and Hiram Bushong, purchase the necessary outfit. Hiram being the older partner in the show business was the advance agent, the younger worked the lantern at the village school houses and other halls on that circuit. When about a hundred miles from home, Celina, Texas, after two particularly bad weeks of rather slim business, Hiram must have done a good job, drumming up customers, because Bushong's Magic Lantern Show, packed a crowded house and the future looked promising. But during the exhibition a couple of wild and drunken cowboys started in to "shoot up" the show, and before they left the hall the audience had retired in haste. Every window in the room was smashed as well as the magic lantern. Even the receipts at the box office disappeared during the melee. There was nothing for Hiram and young Chester to do but to start for home.
Hiram and Naamah had four children.
Hiram first married Mary Ann "Naamah" Salsberry and they had four children. After Naamah died, he married Frances Reed Stansell.
Hiram was born in Columbus Grove, Ohio, but lived many other places. He is found in Celina, Collin County, Texas; Hunt, Kerr, Texas: Portales, Roosevelt County, New Mexico: and was last noted in South Bend, St Joseph, Indiana.
When he was a boy, he had an accordion with him in photos taken over the years. He lived at home with his parents, James and Drusilla Bushong in Columbus Grove, Ohio, until 1871 when he married Naamah Salsberry.
Sometime in the 1890's Hiram went into business with his nephew, John Chester Bushong. This was Chester's (and probably Hiram's)first business venture, which followed his attendance at an itinerant magic lantern exhibition, in which he was greatly interested. Although Chester's father (Hiram's older brother John Stout Bushong) objected to the project he still helped him, and Hiram Bushong, purchase the necessary outfit. Hiram being the older partner in the show business was the advance agent, the younger worked the lantern at the village school houses and other halls on that circuit. When about a hundred miles from home, Celina, Texas, after two particularly bad weeks of rather slim business, Hiram must have done a good job, drumming up customers, because Bushong's Magic Lantern Show, packed a crowded house and the future looked promising. But during the exhibition a couple of wild and drunken cowboys started in to "shoot up" the show, and before they left the hall the audience had retired in haste. Every window in the room was smashed as well as the magic lantern. Even the receipts at the box office disappeared during the melee. There was nothing for Hiram and young Chester to do but to start for home.
Hiram and Naamah had four children.
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