Identifier: genealogicalfami19113cutt (find matches)
Title: Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917 Talcott, Mary Kingsbury, 1847-1917 Bostwick, Frederick, b. 1852 Clement, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1843-1920 Stearns, Ezra S
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Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Publishing
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ical time. This servicemade Mr. Bushnell eligible to the Grand Armyof the Republic and he joined Admiral FootePost, No. 17, Department of Connecticut,June 5, 1886, and was buried with GrandArmy honors. He was one of the organizersof the Union Pacific Railroad Company anda potent factor in pushing to completion thisgreat enterprise and the only one of the origi-nal organizers who remained with the roadfrom its inception to the beginning of opera-tions and running of trains. Mr. Bushnellwas one of the largest subscribers to theunderwriting of securities issued by the UnionPacific Railroad Company, and in distributinghis securities employed as selling agent An-drew Carnegie, whose commissions for dis-posing of these bonds and stocks in Europeamounted to several hundred thousand dol-lars. When Mr. Carnegie was asked by Mr.Bushnell what use he proposed to make ofthese funds, the answer was, I am going toput this money into the steel business in Pitts-burg. This employment of young Carnegie
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^e.>,i~ r.\slo;-ica.l Puh Co CZy -/^ Ai^z:.^x2.^^a/-i,<2_.e-J^-v_ i i i CONNECTICUT 1531 really laid the foundation of his great wealth.Before the civil war actually began, Mr.Bushnell had been impressed with the need ofbetter naval forces. Fie seems to have beenprovidentially selected to give the Union mosttimely and almost dramatic assistance. Heforesaw the necessity of armored vessels andthe need of supplying the navy with a strongertype of vessel in the war. He established ashipyard at Fair Haven, Connecticut, and builtmany steam vessels and other craft for theFederal government under the superintend-ency of S. H. Pook, a naval constructor ofBoston. With the assistance of )\Ir. Pookhe developed the plans for the ironclad warvessel, Galena, for the building of whichhe received a contract from the government,under the provisions of a law secured by Hon.James E. English, the representative in con-gress from the New Haven district, author-izing the secretary of the navy to appoi

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