Lush, William Gansavoort

Matthew Hyman

1880-09-12

Albany, NY

1960-05-31

Albany, Rural Cemetery.

Radio and Civil Engineer

Captain

1917-12-28

1919-01-06

William Lush served during the Mexican War in the Seventh Regiment. He served in the New York National Guard and as an U.S. Army Captain in the Tanks Corps during World War I.

William Ganesvoort Lush Jr was born in Albany in 1880. He worked as an engineer before and after World War I.  After the war he worked for the Radio Corporation of America, setting up wireless stations in Poland.

William Ganesvoort Lush Jr's parents were William Ganesvoort Lush Sr. and Martha Jane Davis. He had a brother, Cuyler Warfield Lush.

He married Rose Mahler in 1911. They had a son, Stephen Stringer Lush. The couple was divorced. He married Anna Maria Slinkers in Paris in 1931.

William Gansevoort Lush, New York, U.S., Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919

William Gansevoort Lush Jr, World War One draft card, Ancestry.com.

William Gansevoort Lush Jr, 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com.

Finding Aid, Lush Genealogy Collection, Mahwah Museum

Capt. William G. Lush, Ridgewood Herald News, June 9, 1960, p. 30.

William G Lush, New York, U.S., Mexican Punitive Campaign Muster Rolls for National Guard, 1916-1917

1) William G. Lush with son Stephen Stringer Lush, ca. 1915 (Lush Family Genealogy and Photograph Collection, Mahwah Museum)
2) William G. Lush portrait (Lush Family Genealogy and Photograph Collection, Mahwah Museum)
3) Lush home on Armour Road, Mahwah (Lush Family Genealogy and Photograph Collection, Mahwah Museum)
4) William Lush and Anna Maria Slinkers Lush (Lush Family Genealogy and Photograph Collection, Mahwah Museum)
5) Passport Photo, 1922 (U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925)
6) New York, U.S., Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919 for William Gansevaart Lush