George Washington Bush Timeline

	1790?	George Washington Bush  born near Philadelphia only child to African-American servant and Irish-American maid.
	1815	Battle of New Orleans with Andrew Jackson
Oct	1818	Treaty of 1818 allows for joint occupation of Oregon Country
	1820	Worked in the Pacific NW for Robideaux Trapping Co. and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in Oregon Territory
	1825	Fort George at Astoria moved to start Fort Vancouver by Dr. McLoughlin
	1830	Moved to Tennessee
	1830	Moved to Missouri and bought a farm
July	1830	Married German-American Isabella James
	1831	Moved to Clay County Missouri and bought another farm which prospered
June	1832	Fought in Illinois Black Hawk War
July	1832	William Owen Bush born
July	1834	Joesph Talbot Bush born
Sep	1837	Rial Bailey Bush born
Apr	1841	Henry Sanford Bush born
Jan	1843	Jackson January Bush born
	1843	Bush-Simmons party organized
May	1844	Start journey with wagon train to Oregon Country from St. Joseph, Missouri
June	1844	Oregon Lash Law enacted by Provisional Government of Oregon
June	1844	Bush-Simmons party in Big Blue River area Nebraska
July	1844	Bush-Simmons party in South Platte River area Nebraska, separate from General Gilliam wagon train
Aug	1844	Bush-Simmons party in Wyoming. See wagon
Sept	1844	Bush-Simmons party in North Platte River area Wyoming
Oct	1844	Bush-Simmons party in Idaho
Nov	1844	Bush-Simmons party in Eastern Oregon. See trail.
Nov	1844	First settlers of the immigration of 1844 arrives in Fort Vancouver
Dec	1844	Arrive at The Dalles, Oregon (Methodist Missions), Bush learns he is barred from Oregon by Lash Law
Dec	1844	Bush family stops with sick William Shaw family at The Dalles to care for all the party's livestock
Dec	1844	Simmons continues with most of Party with a few wagons to Washougal, WA and works for Factor Dr. John McLoughlin at Fort Vancouver
Dec	1844	Simmons with Messrs Loomis, Williamson and of John Owens, Henry Owens, James Owens (3 brothers) explores north along Cowlitz River, but returns to Washougal due to lack of food
Feb	1845	Americans Henry Williamson and Isaac Alderman built a log hut on HBC land near Fort Vancouver mainly for spite
Mar	1845	Bush and Shaw join rest of party in Washougal with livestock after swimming them across Columbia.
Jul	1845	Michael Simmons starts again for Puget Sound with William Shaw, George Wanch, David Parker, David Crawford (who had come to Oregon in 1843) Ninian Everman, Seyburn Thornton, and two others probably, Michael Moore and John Hunt.  Simmons and party upon reaching the Cowlitz prairie hired the  Frenchman Peter Bercier of Cowlitz Farms (HBC), as guide
Jul	1845	Cowlitz Trail construction begins
Aug	1845	Vancouver (Clark) County established north of Columbia River by American Provisional Government with Sir James Douglas, Michael T.Simmons, and John Forrest as Commissioners
Aug	1845	Lt. William Peel and Lt. Parke arrive from Puget Sound and tell McLoughlin there are many British ships in the area to protect British citizens
Aug	1845	Henry James Warre and Mervin Vavasour explore from Willamette to Victoria for the Royal Army and prepare a report that specifies that Puget Sound cannot be defended from American settlers
Sept	1845	McLoughlin submits his resignation to the HBC
Sept	1845	Bush-Simmons party with women and children departs Washougal for Puget Sound
Oct	1845	Party arrives at Tumwater and builds a 40 by 20 foot communal cabin on the Kindred claim 2 miles south of Tumwater for the winter.  Food in short supply.
Jun	1846	49th parallel set as boundary for Oregon Country in a treaty with Britain
	1846	Bush and other families claim land and build cabins.  Bush claim was near existing Olympia Airport (Bush Prairie)
Jan	1846	Dr. McLoughlin retires from HBC.
Apr	1846	President Polk gives notice to London to cancel Joint Occupancy Agreement
June	1846	Oregon Treaty sets boundary with Canada at 49th Parallel ratified by US Senate
	1846	Grist mill opens at the lower Tumwater Falls using few purchased parts
Aug	1846	Oregon Treaty ratified by both countries
Nov	1846	News of Oregon Treaty reaches Fort Vancouver.
Aug	1847	Puget Sound Milling Company formed for sawmill at lower Tumwater Falls.
Oct	1847	Sawmill opens using parts purchased from HBC.
Aug	1847	Trail cleared from Tumwater to Olympia
Aug	1848	Oregon (including Washington) becomes a American territory
	1848	Stockade and blockhouse built at Fort Nisqually due to Indian hostility
Dec	1848	Lewis Nisqually Bush born
	1849	Gold discovered in California
May	1849	Leander Wallace killed by Snoqualmie Indians at Fort Nisqually
July	1849	First meeting of the Oregon Territorial Legislature in Oregon City
Oct	1849	Two Indians hanged at Fort Nisqually for murder of Leander Wallace
Jan	1850	The brig Orbit (American owned) arrives in Olympia
Aug	1850	John Holgate (Seattle founder) stops at the Bush Farm
Sep	1850	Donation Land Claim Act provides free land to settlers
	1851	Pacific County added within Lewis County
Sep	1851	David Denny builds first cabin in West Seattle
Jan	1852	Thurston County established which included north of Cowlitz and west of Cascades
July	1852	David Denny buys cattle on Bush Prairie
	1852	Bush family saves many settlers from famine as crops failed
Sep	1852	"The Columbian" newspaper started in Olympia
	1852	Bush family begins construction of new house with help of W.O. Thompson
Mar	1853	Washington Territory carved from Oregon Territory (included parts of Idaho and Montana)
Mar	1853	Tiger (cougar) was caught by Bush brothers weighing over 200 pounds on Bush farm
	1853	Isaac Stevens appointed as Territorial Governor stops at the Bush Farm
	1853	WA Territory population 3965, Thurston County 996
	1853	Stage Coach service from Olympia to Toledo started
	1853	Olympia chosen as capitol by Stevens
Feb	1854	First Territorial Legislature convenes
	1854	Indian killed in wage dispute at Butler's Cove, Olympia and 27 Indians killed at Port Gamble
Dec	1854	Medicine Creek Treaty sets reservations for Indians
Feb	1855	Memorial sent by Territorial Legislature to the US Congress allows Bush to own land under Donation Land Act
Oct	1855	James McAllister and Michael Connell killed by Nisqually Indians (first of white men during war that followed)
Oct	1855	9 Settlers killed in White River Massacre near Buckley by Klickitat and Duwamish tribes.
Nov	1855	Lt. James McAllister, Col. A.Benton Moses, and Lt. Col. Joseph Miles buried at the Pioneer Cemetery at the edge of the road
	1855	HBC seen assisting Indians
	1855	61 blockhouses built in Washington Territory - 2 in Tumwater, Bush, Rutledge, and Chambers claims
Jan	1856	Battle of Seattle
Aug	1856	End of Indian War declared and settlers return to fields
Feb	1859	Oregon becomes a state
	1860	"Evening Olympian" newspaper started in Olympia
	1860	Thurston County population 1504
	1861	Start of American Civil War at Fort Sumter
Mar	1863	Parts of Idaho and Montana are carved from Washington Territory
Apr	1863	George Washington Bush died and buried in Pioneer Cemetary
	1863	Tumwater Post Office opened
Sep	1864	First telegragh message received in Washington Territory at Olympia and it came from President Abraham Lincoln
	1865	End of Civil War
Jan	1866	Rial Bailey Bush died at age 28.  The Pacific Tribune
Sep	1866	Isabella Bush died Owen, Jackson and Sanford inherit the Farm.  (Talbert and Lewis are not inheritors) Owen takes over the management of the Farm
	1869	Tumwater incorporated
	1870	Sanford, Sales of Liquor without a license
Mar	1870	Male African-Americans given right to vote in Fifteenth Amendment
	1870	Thurston County population 2246, King County population 2164
	1872	Northern Pacific Railway (NPR) arrives in Tenino
	1873	Depression
	1874	NPR starts service to Tacoma (terminus of transcontinental service)
	1878	William Owen finishes construction of new house in same location as his parent's original log house.
Aug	1878	Olympia -Tenino narrow gauge railway through the Bush Farm opens
	1884	William Owen Bush and George Gaston logging near Tenino
	1884	William Owen Bush, game law violation
May	1888	Train tunnel at Stampede Pass opened to traffic for NPR
Nov	1889	Washington becomes a state
	1889	William Owen Bush elected to first State Legislature for one term introducing House Bill 90 which starts an agricultural college later known as WSU
	1893	Depression
?	1900	Houses on homestead - William Owen Bush, John Shotwell Bush and George Gaston (plus 2 extra houses for laborers)
Dec	1900	Last adult from the Party dies on his homestead in Tumwater - Jesse Ferguson
Feb	1907	William Owen Bush died
??	1910	The house of William Owen Bush moved from hilltop to near Deschutes River
	1916	Railway discontinued
	1916	Daughters and Sons of Revolution install marker at 8820 Old Highway 99
	1928	Olympia Airport acquires most of Bush claim
	1937	Bush family bible in care of Mrs. Nellie Kimsey Reichel b. 2/13/1882 - Bush Prairie   died 2/28/1975 - Bellevue
Sep	1945	3 Houses left on homestead - John Bush, George Gaston, and Reichel
Apr	1947	John Shotwell Bush (son of William Owen) dies at the Homestead
Sep	1960	Bush house empty for 12 years.  The Tacoma News Tribune  Photo
	1967	Bush House in disrepair.  Photo
May	1969	State Legislature denies funding for Bush Farmhouse repair. The Daily Olympian
Mar	1970	Bush Farmhouse pulled down by owner The Daily Olympian
Aug	1972	Soroptimists Prepare Bigraphical Exhibit. The Daily Olympian
	1997	Bush Kiosk constructed at 83rd Avenue SW and Old Highway 99
Apr	2009	Butternut sapling planted on Capitol Grounds to honor George Bush and  Martin Luther King
Nov	2010	Butternut replanted after first died
Mar	2016	Butternut sapling continues to grow