Samuel Millard Plush

Plush. Samuel Millard, soldier, physician, inventor, was born in 1840 in Montgomery county. Pa., and is the eldest son of Christian M. and Catherine T. Plush. During the civil war he served under a lieutenant's commission in the one hundred and seventy-fifth regiment Pennsylvania infantry. He then studied medicine; and has attained much success in that profession in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the inventor of an electric magnetic device for guarding buildings and various other electrical methods and appliances: and is well known as a physicist at home and abroad. For many years he was a director and general manager of The Telephone company of Philadelphia; and is an active spirit in institutes and in societies for the advancement of science and the promotion of mechanic arts; and resides in Philadelphia., Pa.

Thomas William Herringshaw. Herringshaw's American Statesman and Public Official Year-book, 1907-1908. Chicago: American Publishers Association, 1907, pp. 437-438.

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