Background
He was born in Clermont County, Ohio, on July 6, 1835.
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Jared Brush
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Career
He was a Republican and served from 1895 to 1899 under governors Albert Washington McIntire and Alva Adams. He moved to Iowa and then to Greeley, Colorado, arriving in 1859. He was a prospector and rancher, who developed early irrigation systems and encouraged agricultural associations.
He served as sheriff of Weld County in 1871, as a county commissioner from 1874 to 1877, and as a state assemblyman from 1879 to 1893.
In 1896 he became a banker but continued to encourage agriculture and education, securing a state normal school for Greeley (later Colorado State Teachers College, now the University of Northern Colorado). He died April 24, 1913, in Greeley.
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Republican party