ID:	8	Reunion Information?:False
Author:	Scott Bushnell
Date Entered:	7/25/2007
News Item Title::	2000 News Letter
News Item Text::	IN MEMORY OF Diane Cecile (Tomlinson) Short 1941 - 1999 Jeffrey Bushnell 1953 - 1999 Richard Thyne #4609 1924 - 2000 Claudius Amon Bushnell #5429 1933 - 2000 ********************************************** BUSHNELL NEWS Greetings, The Bushnell directory has grown! We redid the entire directory. We would like to thank all who wrote and sent donations. We apologize for not being able to respond to them all. We also apologize for mistakes made in the first directory. We hope they have been corrected. If not, let us know. And please let us know if you have a new address. We don't want to lose anyone! - Susan & Darren Troub, AZ **************************************************************************************************** The Genealogical Research Library and Historic Museum at the National Headquarters of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in Louisville, KY, has received, from the Bushnells, the big 1945 Bushnell book by George E. Bushnell. Please visit the library the next time you are in the area. The address is 1000 South Fourth Street, Louisville, KY 40203. (502)589-1776 **************************************************************************************************** Most genealogy books of individual branches of Bushnells use the same numbers and history from the 1945 Bushnell Genealogy Book by George E. Bushnell. We encourage all Bushnells to obtain, for their genealogy collection, this big 1945 book. It can be purchased through: Higginson Book Company, 148 Washington Street, P.O. Box 778, Salem Massachusetts 01970 (978)745-7170 higginsn@cove.com ---------------------------- We will try to put the 1945 Bushnell book, with additions, onto a CD. The birthdates of the living will be kept private for security reasons. **************************************************************************************************** Financial news - At the 1999 reunion, we were able to raise $387. The expense of the 1999 scrapbooks was a little over $400., and we were able to raise another $290. for this directory. We have realize the importance of e-mail in keeping costs down. We would like your comments on how well this issue is received via e-mail. **************************************************************************************************** We are looking into getting donations tax-exempt. We have several options. If anyone has any experience in taxes, please contact us. ---------------------------- All talents of the Bushnells are needed. If you can contribute time and talent or help in any way, please let us know. The Bushnells thank you. **************************************************************************************************** The next big worldwide Bushnell reunion will be June/July 2007 at or near Bushnell Park in CT. We are putting together a list of places we can tour while visiting CT. Send us your suggestions! We want to make this the best reunion ever! ------------------------ Please help us to locate more Bushnells! We don't want anyone to be left out! **************************************************************************************************** We wish to continue to share Bushnell information. Please send us family info, history, recipes, corrections, updates and anything worth print! Donations are needed! **************************************************************************************************** Genealogy Research help on the web: http://library.advanced.org/26017 - is for the Whitfield house which is still standing. It is in the city that Francis helped start and was built in 1639. www.cornerstonefestival.com - is an annual affair with lots of activities in Bushnell Ill. www.bushnellpark.org - is "America's first park" in Connecticut. www.rootsweb.com www.familytreemaker.com www.ancestry.com www.worldgenweb.org www.myhistory.org www.familyhistory.com www.genealogyforum.com www.family.com www.genealogy.com www.genealogytoday.com www.familysearch.com www.geneanet.org www.cyndislist.com www.genealogynews.com Genealogy books and books by Bushnell authors: www.alibris.com www.genealogybookshop.com www.abebooks.com www.higginsonbooks.com www.heritagebooks.com Heritage Books Inc, 1540 Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie MD 20715 **************************************************************************************************** Cemetery news - With special projects such as restoring old headstones, it has been suggested that we have a picnic at or near the cemetery to raise funds for a new stone(s). Anyone interested in hosting an event please let us know so we can help. -------------------------------- Cemetery info: In the Lawtey cemetery in Florida, J.W. Bushnell & his wife E.J. were on the only Bushnell stone. (Thank-you Herm of MI, for checking and leaving no stone unturned!) -------------------------------- Buried at 2nd Congregational Church, West Hartland, Connecticut: Almira Marks Bushnell 1808-1887 Oliver Wells Bushnell 1804-1892 Dolly Bushnell 1783-1819 Reuben Bushnell Dorthy Bushnell 1775-1847 Samuel Bushnell 1788-1816 (#65) Josiah Bushnell 1703-1799 Stephen Bushnell 1749-1821 Lucinda Bushnell 1775-1861 Theodore Bushnell 1783-1845 Lucy A. Bushnell 1799-1848 Theodore M. Bushnell 1815-1817 Martha Jones Bushnell 1710-1777 Ovanda Bushnell Marks 1812-1893 Oliver Bushnell 1773-1847 Marilla Bushnell Stillman 1803-1888 ---------------------------- Buried at a cemetery in Salisbury, Connecticut: Capt. Samuel Bushnell, d. Jan 21, 1793, age 69. Capt. Jeremiah Bushnell, b. in Saybrook CT on Dec 5 1763; d. Oct 8 1833, ae 71. Lucy Bushnell, wife of Capt. Jeremiah Bushnell, d. Mar 13 1849, age 80. Capt. William Bushnell, b. July 22 1798; d. Aug 27 1865. Eliza Bushnell, wife of Capt. William Bushnell, b. Nov 19 1805; d. Aug 5 1869. Eliza Bushnell, daughter of Gideon and Nancy Bushnell, d. May 15 1809, age 1yr 8mo Hermon B. Bushnell, b. Sept 9 1807; d. June 29 1851, age 43yrs, 9mos & 20 days. **************************************************************************************************** BUSHNELL FAMILY HISTORY Old Saybrook, town, Middlesex County, southern Connecticut, on Long Island Sound, at the mouth of the Connecticut River; incorporated 1854. It is primarily a residential community and a summer resort and has some manufacturing firms. The Dutch first visited the area in 1614, but no attempts were made to settle here until Saybrook, the first permanent community on the site, was established in 1635 by a group of English settlers under the leadership of the colonial governor John Winthrop. The Collegiate School of America, from which Yale University developed, was founded here in 1701, and in 1775 the American inventor David Bushnell built a submarine here that was used during the American Revolution. Saybrook (now Deep River) and Old Saybrook were separated in 1852. Population 9,287 (1980); 9,552 (1990). **************************************************************************************************** The First Submarine: #366 David Bushnell, b. Westbrook, Conn. 30 Aug. 1740, d. Warrenton, Georgia abt 1823, ae.abt. 82, never married; was of slight build and nervous temperament. Was original inventor of the submarine, contact mine, screw propeller, and drive shaft bearings for under water use. He prepared for college with Rev. John Devotion, Pastor of the 3rd Cong. Church at Westbrook, (with which church he united 17 Oct. 1773), and entered Yale University in class of 1775. From his freshman year he made extensive studies in the effects of explosives under water, and developed the basic principles for underwater navigation which today control submarine design. By Dec. 1775, except for a few minor details, he had completed the construction of an underwater boat, which he called a "torpedo" but which was later named "The American Turtle" designed for blowing up enemy ships, and the next February he appeared before the Governor and Council of Connecticut at their request, to give an account of his "machine" as it was called, upon which his plan was fully approved and he was urged to "proceed with it and make every preparation and experiment, with the expectation of proper notice and reward." On the night of 6 Sept. 1776 the first underwater attack against an enemy ship by submarine was made in New York Harbor upon the 64 gun British Frigate, Eagle, commanded by Admiral Lord Howe, but the operator, Sergt. Ezra Lee, being untrained, who had substituted for David's brother Ezra, who had been fully trained but was sick at the time, failed to attach the mine to the vessel, and was frightened away by approaching dawn. A few days later another attempt was made in the Hudson River opposite 106th St. but upon discovery, he was again frightened away. This ended the experiments, although present day specialists aver that there is not theoretical reason why success should not have resulted. General Washington wrote, "I then thought, and I still think, that it was an effort of genius." He later developed the drifting torpedo (so named by him), and in Aug. 1777, endeavored to float one against the British ship Cerebus in New London Harbor, but an American Schooner intercepted the mine, and the crew hauled in aboard their vessel whereupon it exploded, killing three of the crew, and destroying the vessel. The British ship hastily withdrew to New York and reported "the secret modes of mischief of the Rebels." Later in the year he attempted to float some mines tied together down the Delaware River opposite Philadelphia, where the British fleet was stationed, but again his plans were upset, for ice floes intercepted or deflected them, and while one hit a rowboat and destroyed the boat and its occupant, the fleet weighed anchor and moved to a safer anchorage. This event is memorialized by Hon. Francis Hopkinson by the song "The Battle of the Kegs." In 1778 General Washington proposed the formation of a new military unit to be known as the "Corps of Sappers and Miners," and in the summer of the next year it was organized, and on 7 Aug. 1779, David Bushnell was appointed Captain-Lieutenant from civil life, upon the recommendations of Gov. Trumbull, Gen. Parsons and others, and on 8 June 1781 he was promoted to full Captain, and was at the Siege of Yorktown in the following Sept. and October, the only time that unit had had the opportunity to render special service. He served until the end of the war, and before the unit was discharged, commanded the Corps, and had become a member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati, an organization formed during the war by officers of the rank of Captain and higher. He is of record as certifying the service of one Phineas Wentworth, over the signature of G. Bushnell, which I am advised was a printer's error. On 6 May 1779, he was taken prisoner in Middlsex Parish, now Darien, Conn. After peace was declared he returned to Connecticut impoverished, the subject of some honor, and some covert ridicule; becoming discouraged it is said that he went to France, but in 1795/6 returned to Savannah, Ga. where he stayed for a time with his friend Abraham Baldwin, Yale '72, but soon went to Columbia County where he taught school, and perhaps studied medicine, as he later settled in Warrenton, Ga. under the name Dr. Bush, where he practiced that profession until his death. He applied for, and on 3 Feb. 1800, was granted a pension, and not until his will was probated was it generally known that the village medic concealed one of the greatest inventive minds and geniuses of that time. -from the 1945 Bushnell Book --------------------------------------- "Bushnell is a man of great mechanical powers, fertile in invention and a master of execution." -General George Washington, September 26,1776 -------------------------------------- The Connecticut River Museum in Essex, CT owns the only working, full-scale model of David Bushnell's 1776 invention, the American Turtle. The first submarine ever to be used in combat was actually constructed as an afterthought. Bushnell and fellow Yale University intellectual, Phineas Pratt, had conceived of the underwater bomb with a time delayed flintlock detonator. The one-man, hand-propelled submarine was designed simply to transport the bomb to the enemy vessel. -http://www.connix.com/~crm/turtle.htm **************************************************************************************************** HUMOR: Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. **************************************************************************************************** Hampton, Virginia, is the site of the naval battle between the Merrimac, owned by the Confederate States of America, and the Monitor, owned by Cornelius Scranton Bushnell who hoped to sell it to the United States but had to prove its worthiness before Uncle Sam would buy it. -submitted by Bob Bushnell --------------------------------------------- # 1202 CORNELIUS SCRANTON BUSHNELL, b. Madison, CT 7-19-1829, d. New York, NY 5-6-1896. CORNELIUS shipped on a coasting vessel at the age of 15 and a year and a half later was half owner of a 60 ton schooner in the coastal trade between New Haven and New York, but after five years as a mariner, forsook the sea to enter the wholesale grocery business with his older brother Nathan Townsend (#1201) Bushnell in New Haven in which he continued for many years, although active in many other enterprises. In 1858 he became interested in the bankrupt New London and New Haven R.R. and with his own capital and credit, and that of some of his friends, was successful in completing in 1860, a connection with the Providence road at Stonington, which established a through route between Boston and New York, and with favorable legislation, solved the immediate difficulties of the road. He had been elected president of the railroad, and was in Washington DC on railroad business early in 1861 when the Civil War broke out, and upon the call for volunteers to defend the Capitol until such time as regular troops could be moved there, he enlisted with the Cassius H. Clay Battalion on the 13th, and was mustered in on 18 Apr. 1861 and after the arrival of the 6th Massachusetts Infantry was discharged the 4 May next, his honorable discharge being signed by President Lincoln. By the capture of the Norfolk Navy Yard early in 1861, the Confederates obtained the hull of a 3500 ton frigate which had been burned and sunk when the Federal force left Norfolk, and it was discovered that the machinery was not damaged, and that the hull could be salvaged, whereupon work was soon commenced upon an iron-clad battery, later to be known as the MERIMAC, which with it's antagonist, the MONITOR, was to revolutionize naval construction the world over. This project was known in Washington and Mr. Bushnell, appreciating the necessity for predominance in sea power, both offensive and defensive, and that it must be developed quickly, prepared to open a shipyard in Fair Haven, CT, and with the assistance of Mr. S. H. Pook of Boston, an expert naval constructor, plans for an iron-clad vessel, later known as the GALENA, were prepared and submitted to the newly created Naval Board, who approved the design, and with a contract for it's construction, he prepared to leave for New Haven, but in the meantime, doubts had arisen, as to it's stability with it's heavy armor, and it was suggested that he consult with Capt. John Erickson of New York, an expert in naval construction, and an inventor, and fortunate it was for the preservation of national unity that he did so, for it was at this conference with Capt. Erickson that plans were exhibited and the model for a battery with a revolving turret, that would be impervious to shot and shell, and which could be built in 90 days. Erickson had designed it for the French Government about 1854 but it had not been accepted. Mr. Bushnell immediately perceived in this small model the ideal craft for which he had been seeking, and eight days later, after having with consumate tact, overcome all objections, succeeded in forcing upon the government the adoption of the impregnable turret, which was to become standard with all the navies of the world. This battery, (vessel with guns), the MONITOR, so named as an admonition to foreign governments to be cautious, or "Cheesebox on a Raft" as it was derisively called, was about 180 feet long with a 41 foot beam, was launched at Greenport, RI on 30 Jan 1862, and on 9 Mar 1862, the day following the partial destruction of the federal fleet in Hampton Roads, met the MERRIMAC, and after a terrific battle sent her back to her anchorage wounded unto death. Because of a clause which had been added to the contract, the contractors were require to guarantee the satisfactory performance, and as there had not been sufficient time for the official tests, the MONITOR, when it went into battle, was the property of the contractors; Mr. Bushnell, Mr. Winslow, Mr. Griswold, and Capt. Erickson. The government had not built nor paid for her, and the red tape of the government bureaus had almost laughed her to scorn. On 31 Dec. 1862, the MONITOR foundered in a severe gale off Cape Hattaras with 17 men and 4 officers while on it's way to Charleston, SC. All honor is due to Capt. Erickson's talent, but his designs were of no practical value until the bold and resourceful Mr. Bushnell appeared and put his ideas to completion. In 1862, Mr. Bushnell became one of the original organizers of the Union Pacific Railroad and the only one who remained until it's completion, and for many years was the sole survivor of the original board of directors. A station in Nebraska was named Bushnell in his honor. -from the 1945 Bushnell Book. ----------------------------------------------- USS Monitor preservation under way -Associated Press, June 18, 2000 New efforts to protect the wreck of the USS Monitor are getting under way off North Carolina. A joint National Ocean Service and Navy expedition began this week and is expected to continue for four weeks, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday. The Civil War ironclad Monitor became famous for its battle with the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia. The Monitor later sank in a storm. A marine sanctuary 16 miles off the coast at Cape Hatteras now surrounds its remains. The new expedition is designed to place grout bags beneath the hull of the deteriorating vessel to prevent sections of the ship from dropping several feet to the sea floor, which would damage or destroy much of the material still within the hull. The vessel lies upside down in 240 feet of water, resting on its displaced turret. NOAA divers have reported significant deterioration in recent years. In addition to the grout bags, the long-range preservation plan for the Monitor calls for recovering major components of the wreck, including the engine and turret. The propeller was recovered in 1998. The work will be carried out by Navy divers. Any recovered artifacts will be taken to the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va. The Monitor and Virginia battled to a draw in Hampton Roads, Va., on March 9, 1862, in the first clash between ironclad vessels, an event that marked the beginning of the end for wooden vessels. The Virginia is sometimes referred to as the Merrimack, its name becoming part of the Confederate Navy. **************************************************************************************************** From a newspaper in Albany NY: On September 8, 1866 in a Chicago home, a mid-wife probably ran to tell a new father, "It's a boy." A few minutes she returned to announce, "And a girl." Later, "It's another boy." Still later, "And another girl." Later yet, "And another boy," Finally, "And yet another girl." The poor mid-wife must have been exhausted after the sixth babe, to say nothing of the stork. It goes without saying that it must have been quite an experience for the mother, Jennie Bushnell, and even for the doctor. But any father who ever paced a waiting room can commiserate with James Bushnell on that fateful day in Chicago when the sextuplets were born. This event might have rivalled the Chicago Fire as the sensation of the 19th century in that city's history if the parents had not been shy of publicity. They kept the multiple-birth a secret from the world and from the four children who survived to maturity until the children were 15 years old. The father had lived for a time in Medina and moved to Chicago where he met and married Jennie Lewis, a British actress of French origin. When Mrs. Oleary's cow burned Chicago down in 1871, the four Bushnell children were thrown from a second story window into a fireman's net below. The Bushnell home was burned down. So they moved to Buffalo and then to Lockport where Mrs. Bushnell died and was buried. Mr. Bushnell next worked as a bookkeeper for James D. Kearney in Medina. Later he moved to Albion where he did clerical work for several quarries until his death. The two sextuplets who died in infancy were Lucy and Laberta. Norberto died in Buffalo around 1935. Alice graduated from Albion High School in 1889, taught piano, married a minister and moved to Arizona. Alberto died in the Orleans County Home in 1940. Alincia married Mr. Alberto Parker and moved to Perry, NY where she died in 1952. The last three lived to watch with interest the publicity given the Dianna quintuplets in Canada in 1934. They appeared on Bob Ripley's "Believe of Not" radio show in 1938. The birth certificate of the Bushnell sextuplets was consumed in flames in the famous Chicago fire. But there is reported to be a document certifying the event and signed by the attending physician, Dr. James Edwards and the mid-wife nurse, Priscilla Bancroft. -submitted by Asa Bushnell, AZ. Genealogy books show that Asa and his sister, Barbara, are direct descendants of the multiple-birth Bushnells. Septuplets were very rare in the last century, and the French-born mother kept the Bushnell Six a secret because she believed she would be mocked for having a "litter". ***************************************************************************************************** A CIVIL WAR LETTER: Camp near Lake Providence, LA March the 23rd, 1863 Dear sirs, I for the first time in my life take my pen in hand to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well and I hope that these few lines will find you and your family enjoying the same blessing. Our regiment is in very good health now but there has been considerable sickness down here. These regiments don't stand it very well. They are not as tough as we are. We can lie down almost everywhere and not catch cold. We are as fat as pigs. I weigh 180 lbs. Hard crackers and sow belly agrees with us now for we have got accustomed to it. But we generally have more than that to eat for we are pretty good at jayhocking. Well, Lake, what do you think of the war by this time? I think we are in a kind of mixed up mess. Old Jeff (Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States of America) gives us a pretty hard time but I think we will clean him out yet. We expect a fight soon at Vicksburg. At least it looks like it for our Army is preparing for something for there were a good many boats came up here last night to take Logan's division down river. That is a sign of a fight, I think, but we have had no orders to move, yet. I do not know whether we will or not. Some think we won't for our division was sent here to guard the river and keep the guerrillas from firing on our boats. Coming down the river the rascals fired into us two or three times but didn't hit us. We are now about 65 miles above Vicksburg. We have been at work here cutting through the levy and letting the water through into Lake Providence. The particulars you probably know, so I won't tell you only that we have let the water through and it almost drowned us out. We had to move 4 miles up river. The water went through very fast. It is going to ruin a good share of Louisiana. It is overflowing very fast and now it is scaring the people here almost to death. They come to us for protection and we send them up the river out of the way somewhere. It is very rainy and muddy here today. So much so that one of our boys was digging a ditch before the tent and he got his foot fast in the mud. He had to dig it out with his spade. It is nasty here when it rains but when it doesn't rain it is very pleasant. It is pretty country here. There has been a great many rich planters here but they have nearly all left and gone to war. Only the old ones stay at home, and the girls, Lake, some of them look pretty good. I don't know but what I should settle down on one of these plantations, wouldn't you? It looks more like summer here now than it does up there in May. The peach trees were out in full bloom four or five weeks ago. There are going to be lots of them. Lake, when you get this letter answer it if you think it is worth answering, and tell me all the news for we don't know what is going on up there. We hardly ever get any papers here. I received a letter from my sister, Jane, the other day and she said that the 22nd Regiment had been in a fight and that most of them were killed or taken prisoners. If that is so, I expect Sam, my brother, is either killed or taken prisoner. If you hear anything from him, let me know when you write. I feel a little uneasy about him. Haven't had a letter from him in a good while, but he may come out alright yet. I will close with my respects to you, your wife, and your family. Dan Rogers sends his compliments to you. He says he means to write you. No more at present for it is getting late. Yours respectively. From, Isaac W. Young To: French Lake PS: Direct to I. W. Young Co B, 18th Regt, Wis Vol 6th Division, Gen Grants Army in the field. -Isaac Young is ggrandfather to Lucell (Young) Bushnell #2557. Submitted by Lucell's granddaughter, Susan Troub **************************************************************************************************** It's interesting that the battles of the civil war were fought at national parks. **************************************************************************************************** GRINNELL COLLEGE, private, coeducational institution of higher education in Grinnell, Iowa, 77 km (48 mi) east of the state capital of Des Moines. The college was founded as Iowa College in 1846 and later named after the American abolitionist minister JOSIAH BUSHNELL GRINNELL. The college confers bachelor's degrees in a broad range of fields. The curriculum is divided into three degree-granting academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Under Grinnell's Open Curriculum academic system, students are required to take a tutorial course during their first year, after which they develop their own course of study in any of 25 majors or as an independent major. A joint degree in engineering is offered in cooperation with Columbia University in New York City; the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York; or Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Research facilities at the college include the Conard Environmental Research Area and the Grant O. Gale Observatory. Harry Lloyd Hopkins, a United States government official and adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, graduated from Grinnell College. American film actor Gary Cooper and American musician Herbie Hancock both studied at Grinnell. **************************************************************************************************** Francis (#1), before living and departing from Horsham, Sussex, England, lived in Thatcham, Berkshire, England. The records I have read suggest that they may have come to Thatcham from Tilehurst, Berkshire, England. There are land records going way back to about 1200 there. There is a Norman church built, as I recall in 1140, not all that long after the Norman conquest of England. It is possible that the Bushnells were Norman, coming to England from Normandy with William the Conqueror. -submitted by Dorothy, CA **************************************************************************************************** Bushnell Coat of Arms: HE BEARETH ARMS: Argent, five fusils in fesse, gules, in chief three molets, sable. CREST: On a ducal coronet, or a wyvern sans feet. MOTTO: "Mes droits on la mort." (Right unto death) More info at: www.sentex.net/`heraldry **************************************************************************************************** NOTABLE BUSHNELLS: ---------------- Bushnell, Asa Smith (1900-1975), American sports administrator, one of the most influential figures in amateur athletics in the United States. Born in Springfield, Ohio, Bushnell attended Princeton University. After graduating in 1921, he began a banking career in Springfield, but he soon returned to Princeton to edit an alumni magazine. He assumed the position of graduate manager of Princeton athletics in 1927. In 1934 Bushnell helped found the Princeton Invitational Track Meet, which eventually grew into a competition that attracted world-renowned athletes. In the late 1930s he helped establish the Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics, which evolved into the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), an organization of more than 200 colleges and universities. Bushnell was ECAC commissioner from 1938 to 1970. In addition to his work with collegiate athletics, Bushnell was instrumental in the U.S. Olympic movement in the mid-20th century. He served on the board of directors of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) from 1945 to 1970 and held the post of USOC secretary from 1945 to 1965. Bushnell's contributions to the USOC helped the organization adapt to the constantly changing circumstances of amateur athletics. In 1990 he was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. -------------------- Bushnell, Horace (1802-76), American theologian, born in Bantam, Connecticut, and educated at Yale College (now Yale University). In 1833 he became pastor of the North Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut, which he served for 26 years. He was strongly evangelical in belief but denied the Calvinistic theory of the atonement. For this and other deviations from orthodoxy he was accused of heresy, but he was never brought to trial. Bushnell was a voluminous writer, an inspiring preacher, and a bold and original thinker on theology. His influence extended to almost all Protestant denominations in the U.S., profoundly modifying 19th-century religious thought. His works include Christian Nurture (1847), God in Christ (1849), Nature and the Supernatural (1858), and The Vicarious Sacrifice (1866). --------------------- Hart, Albert Bushnell (1854-1943), American historian, professor, and author, whose research concentrated on the development of government in the United States. Hart was born in Clarksville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Harvard University in 1880. After further study in Freiburg, Germany, he began teaching at Harvard University in 1883. Hart remained at Harvard until 1926. He collaborated with American historian Edward Channing in editing American History Leaflets and cowriting Guide to the Study of American History (1896). Hart wrote many books about American history and government, including Formation of the Union (1892), Foundations of American Foreign Policy (1901), and Essentials of American History (1905). **************************************************************************************************** One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. - Margaret Mead, anthropologist **************************************************************************************************** Bushnell, Nolan Kay (1943- ), American founder-chairman of Atari, Inc. (1972-79), born in Clearfield, Utah, and educated at Utah State College and at the University of Utah. After working as an engineer for Ampex Corporation (1968-71) Bushnell became product engineer for Nutting Associates (1971-72), where he developed a game called Computer Space. Eager to run his own business, he founded Syzygy (1972), which he renamed Atari ("Atari" comes from the Asian game Go; it is a polite warning from one player to his opponent that he is in peril). He then developed Pong, which was a best-seller in 1973. Variations on Pong, using programmed cartridges, followed; a home version was released in 1975. By 1976 Atari was a company whose employees enjoyed flexible hours, no dress code, and the use of hot tubs as think tanks-and was doing $40 million in business. Warner Communications bought the company that year for $28 million; Bushnell remained as chairman. Bushnell opened Pizza Time Theatre in 1977, which combined pizza, games, and performing robots; the venture expanded from 7 restaurants in 1979 to more than 200 in 1982. Bushnell resigned from Atari in 1979 after the failure of the Video Computing System, a series of games for home use, and became a venture capitalist. By late 1983, however, Pizza Time was in debt, Bushnell resigned, and the company filed for bankruptcy; by 1986 most of his venture capital companies were also gone. In early 1985 he started Axlon, a toy and game company, and a year later he began collaborating with Steve Wozniak, a cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc., on plans for remote- or audio-controlled toy robots. **************************************************************************************************** "The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy." --Margaret Mead **************************************************************************************************** "There is nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -Jack E. Leonard to Ed Sullivan **************************************************************************************************** Bushnell Reunion Notices: FOR DESCENDANTS OF: Clark Ephriam Bushnell Sr. # 607 WHERE: Ritzville, Washington WHEN: 2nd Saturday in August every other year CONTACT: Bushnell Reunion, 5806 NE 45th Ave, Vancouver, WA 98661 FOR DESCENDANTS OF: Lucius Edward Bushnell #3332 WHERE: Lansing, Michigan WHEN: Last Sunday in August CONTACT: Keith & Darlene Bushnell, Michigan FOR DESCENDANTS OF: Eusebius Bushnell #432 WHERE: Indian Village, North of Lake Charles, Louisiana WHEN: 4th weekend in October every year CONTACT: ? **************************************************************************************************** FAMILY RECIPES Gramma Bushnell's Fudge -Submitted by Charlene Osterhaus, WI 2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup 2 cups white sugar 1 1/2 cup milk 4 squares dark chocolate Mix the above ingrediences, boil til soft ball, cool, then add: 1 tsp vanilla 3/4 cup nuts (if desired) Put in buttered 9x9 pan. Best until candy loses it's glossy look. Charlene's Cheesecake -Submitted by Charlene Osterhaus, WI Mix 1/3 cup oleo with 16 crushed graham crackers, press into 9" pie plate. Mix until smooth: 3 - 3oz pkg cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg Pour into crust, bake at 350 - 20 minutes, cool Blend: 1 pint sour cream, 2 T sugar, 1 tsp vanilla Pour over cooled cheesecake, bake at 350 - 20 minutes (this is a twice baked cheesecake) Refrigerate. Serve with raspberries. Dale's Butterscotch Pie (2pies) -Submitted by Charlene Osterhaus, WI 2 baked pie shells 1/2 tsp salt 4 cups milk 6 egg yolks 2 cups brown sugar 3 T butter 2/3 cup flour 1 tsp vanilla Mix brown sugar, flour, salt with enough milk consistancy of thick gravy. Add egg yolks. Scald rest of milk. Add little scalded milk to yolk mixture then all of yolk mixture to milk in pan. Cook and stir constantly until really thick - thick enough when spoon leaves a path through pudding. Cool. Add butter, vanilla. Pour into pies shells. Top with meringue: 6 egg whites - beat frothy gradually add 3/4 cup white sugar & vanilla Beat until stiff - holds peaks Spread over pies, brown in oven at 325 abt 20 minutes, cool. *************************************************************************************************** HUMOR: - If you're in the spice business, thyme is money. *************************************************************************************************** Paul's Pumpkin Pie -Submitted by Charlene Osterhaus, WI 1 pie 2 pies 3 pies pumplin 1 cup 2 cups 3 cups syrup 1/3 cup 2/3 cup 1 cup eggs 2 4 6 sugar 2/3 cup 1 1/3 cups 2 cups cream (evap. milk) 3/4 cup 1 1/2 cups 2 1/4 cups corn starch 1 T 2 T 3 T cinnamon 1 tsp 2 tsp 3 tsp cloves 1/4 tsp 1/2 tsp 3/4 tsp ginger 1/2 tsp 1 tsp 1 1/2 tsp allspice 1/2 tsp 1 tsp 1 1/2 tsp Mix all ingredients, pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake at 425 until the crust browns, abt 15 min. Bake at 350 - 35-40 minutes or until butter knife in center comes out clean. Claire's Creamy Shellfish Supreme -Submitted by Charlene Osterhaus, WI Saute: 1 large cup mushrooms, drained 1/2 cup oleo Add: 1 can cream of shrimp soup 2 - 4 1/2oz cans of shrimp 1 1/3 cup milk 1 - 8oz can crabmeat 1/4 cup cheddar cheese 1 - 3 1/2oz sliced chestnuts, drained 1/2 cup mayo 1 - 10 1/2oz can french fried onion rings 2 cups fine noodles, crushed, uncooked Norene's Irish Potato Casserole -Submitted by Charlene Osterhaus, WI 8-10 medium potatoes, peeled, cooked, drained 1/2 cup oleo, melted 8oz pkg cream cheese, softened 1/4 cup chopped onions 8oz sour cream 2 tsp salt Mash potatoes, beat in cream cheese until smoothe, add rest of ingredients. Put in buttered 2 qt casserole, sprinkle paprika, cover, refrigerate overnight. Remove from refrig 15 minutes before baking. Uncover, bake at 350 - 30 minutes.