FORBUSH, DR. B. G.

FORBUSH, MANN, HOLBROOK, BELLOWS

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Biography reproduced from page 289 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Dr. B. G. Forbush was born March 20, 1821, in Cayuga Co., N. Y. His father died when he was quite young. When seven years of age his mother moved to Erie Co., N. Y., where he grew to manhood, receiving a common school education. When twenty-eight years of age he commenced reading medicine in Buffalo, N. Y., under Dr. J. B. Pride, attended lectures at Buffalo Medical University, and graduated in 1852. He began the practice of medicine in Buffalo, where he remained three years. He married Sophrona P. Mann, of Aurora, Erie Co., N. Y. She died in 1851. He then married Louise Holbrook, in 1853, who died in 1866, leaving two children—Charles G. and Endora L. In 1853 he removed to Chautauqua Co., N. Y. In 1856 he went to Grant Co., Wis., where he followed his profession till the spring of 1872, when he came to Algona, and is now engaged in the drug business. Dr. Forbush is a member of Prudence Lodge, No. 205, and is an upright man and a gentleman of the old school. In 1868 he attended the Eclectic College at Cincinnati, where he graduated. In 1875 he married to Viola Bellows, his present wife.