Many Volga German families came to Brush to work in the sugar beet industry. The factory opened 11 October 1906 in northeast Brush and operated until 1955. Only the warehouse remains today.
Immanuel Congregational Church
St. Mary's Catholic Church
The following Volga German families settled in and around Brush:
Amen from Frank
Artzer from Sewald
Aschenbrenner from Norka
Asmus from Grimm
Baskall from Rothammel
Baumgartner from Anton
Beck
Becker
Befus from Katharinental
Bellendir from Köhler
Bernhardt
Bersch from Mariental
Blum
Bollig
Bostrom / Bostron
Bott
Brautigam from Kolb
Brungardt / Brunkhardt from Herzog
Butz from Beideck
Denning from Herzog
Dietz from Walter
Dolberg from Beideck
Dorn from Walter
Dreher from Neu-Ober-Monjou
Dreith from Beideck
Eichorn from Dönhof
Eckes / Ickes
Eckhardt
Engelman from Kukkus
Floth
Foos
Frick
Friehauf
Fritzler
Geisick / Giesick from Walter
Geist
Gelroth from Bauer
George
Grauberger from Dietel
Heilbrun from Dietel
Hein from Frank
Herbst from Frank
Hergenreter from Sewald
Hirschfeld from Pfeifer
Hoff from Frank
Kahler / Koehler
Kammerzell
Kauffman from Frank
Kautz from Merkel
Kissler
Klippert from Walter
Kloberdanz
Koehler from Beideck
Krieger from Norka
Lapp from Frank
Lauck
Lebsack / Lebsock
Legleiter
Leis from Hussenbach
Macht from Köhler
Miller
Mohrlang
Needens from Gnadentau
Nuss
Oblander
Ostwald from Kautz
Pabst from Beideck
Pfannenstiel / Fahnenstiel
Quint
Rehn
Reich
Reichert from Dietel
Reifschneider
Rieb from Nieder-Monjou
Rothe from Frank
Sauer from Zug
Sauerbreit from Hussenbach
Scheideman from Norka
Schillerif
Schilling
Schlundt from Bauer
Schmer from Norka
Schmick
Schnegelberger from Beideck
Schott from Grimm
Schreiber
Schreiner
Schultheis / Schuldies
Schwindt from Norka
Siegwardt / Sigwart
Spahn
Spomer from Beideck
Uhrich from Frank
Unrein
Usinger
Wacker / Walker from Norka
Walter / Walters
Wamboldt / Wombold from Dietel
Weimer
Weitzel from Frank
Wiederspahn / Wiederspan
Winter
Wolf
Yakel
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1920 Federal Census of Morgan County
Brush Memorial Cemetery (FindAGrave.com)
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Brush Sugar Factory (1909)
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Brush Sugar Factory.
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