Biography
Mikhail Bushanowits was born 1887 in Born , Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus). Worked as a migration: immigrated to us 1912. Immigrated to the United States in 1912.
Served in the Russian military before migrating to the United States, where he became active distributing radical literature. He joined the Union of Russian Workers, distributed Russian-language IWW literature, and served as secretary of the Progressive Union of Russian Peasants in Hartford, Connecticut. He was arrested there in December 1919 and deported to Soviet Russia on January 22, 1921.
Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.