See BOSCHONG Archives for March 2010. John Chester Bushong was the son of John Stout Bushong and Samantha Vylette/Violette Rice. --------------- John Chester Bushong died 20 December 1938 in Worchester, Massachusetts. ---------------- LINEAGE: Unknown Mitchell - Proven DNA - Adopted into Bushong family and name changed George Bushong and Lydia Rush James Bushong and Drusilla Stout John Stout Bushong and Samantha Vylette/Violette Rice John Chester Bushong ------------------- The El Paso Herald El Paso, Texas Friday Evening, 28 November 1919 Page 9, Column 2 & 3 Summary of Article by me: In May 1895 Fred J. Feldman leased the photographic studio of John Chester Bushong in El Paso, Texas for 1 year while Bushong went east to take a post graduate course in photography. On Bushong's return, the two of them formed a partnership called BUSHONG AND FELDMAN. They were in business together for 4 years at which time when Mr. Feldman bought out Bushong and Bushong returned to Massachusetts for a wider field of activities. ------------------- The El Paso Daily Herald Thursday, 19 August 1897 Page 4, Column 5 A PILGRIM'S RETURN Mr. Bushong returned this morning via the T. & P. {Texas and Pacific Railroad}, from the Panhandle, where he has been rusticating and enjoying himself for the last two weeks. He started out, as per schedule, from Colorado City, across the country to Plainview, 179 miles, and made it in three days. But on the return, Mr. Bushong found it was seventeen miles shorter to strike Big Springs, and he tried it. He did make 102 miles the first day; but then came grief and affliction, trails and tribulations. He got mired in a slue of despond that he read of in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress when a kid, and after revolving many things in his mind as to how he should get out, chanced to see something that looked like a rope dangling near him. Mr. Bushong laid hold of the same and found it to be a mule's tail. He held on like grim death to a pole darkie, and was yanked out of the mud by the excited animal along with is wheel. Mr. Bushong thanked the mule kindly and tried to continue on the turf. But he got about 400 punctures , or less in three minutes from the mosquite thorns. But with rare presences of mind, he did not pull the thorns out of his tire, but cut them off "close to the hub" with a razor and went on. The thorns staid in the rubber and did not come out, so the tires did not collapse. Mr. Bushong camped out in the brush over night, and being short of matches, kindled a fire by the light of his countenance, and by rubbing two sticks together till the flame came. He shot several cotton tail rabbits, skinned the same with the deftness of a chef and broiled the flesh. Unfortunately he had no butter. The skunks and prairie dogs stole it all the first night. Mr. Bushong got out of water. But as the dew fell copiously by night, he shook moisture out of the greasewood into his hat and poured it into his canteen until it was full. Mr. Bushong has photographed all of his prairie experiences, in his mind, and will reproduce the same through the camera for the delectation of his many friends. He reached Big Springs right side up with care, and slept all the way in. His riding covered 405 miles, "turnstille count." ---------------------- The El Paso Herald El Paso, Texas 10 August 1898 Published in column titled: 14 YEARS AGO TODAY - 10 August 1912, Page 6, Column 6 Among the arrivals on the Texas and Pacific this morning was John Chester Bushong whose pictures have won much fame for himself and El Paso. ------------------- Researched and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong