Samuel P. Bush
Born	October 4, 1863 Brick Church, Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Died	February 8, 1948 Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA
Occupation	Business, Relative
Spouse	Flora Sheldon
Parents	James Smith Bush Harriet Fay
Children	Prescott Sheldon Bush Robert Bush Mary Bush-House Margaret Bush-Clement James Bush

Samuel Prescott Bush (October 4, 1863 – February 8, 1948) was an American industrialist and entrepreneur, and the patriarch of the Bush political family. He was the father of Senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of President George H. W. Bush, and great-grandfather of current President George W. Bush. Portrait of samuel bush. ... October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_New_Jersey. ... Map of City of Orange in Essex County The City of Orange Township is a City in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. ... Essex County is a county located in the northeastern part of the state of New Jersey. ... is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Ohio. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: , Country United States State Ohio Counties Franklin, Delaware, and Fairfield Government  - Mayor Michael B. Coleman (D) Area  - City  212. ... Franklin County is a county located in the state of Ohio. ... Wall Street, Manhattan is the location of the New York Stock Exchange and is often used as a symbol for the world of business. ... A family in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including domestic partnership, cohabitation, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the... Flora Sheldon (March 17, 1852 in Ohio - September 4, 1920) was the wife of Samuel Prescott Bush and the mother of Prescott Bush, the grandmother of George H. W. Bush, and the great-grandmother of George W. Bush. ... James Smith Bush (June 15, 1825 – November 11, 1889) was an attorney and Episcopal priest and an ancestor of the Bush political family. ... Harriet Eleanor Fay (October 29, 1829 - February 27, 1924) is the great-grandmother of President George H. W. Bush and great-great-grandmother of President George W. Bush. ... Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was a United States Senator from Connecticut and a Wall Street executive banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. ... October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... The Bush family:President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, former First Lady Barbara Bush, and former President George H. W. Bush sit surrounded by family in the Red Room (White House) on January 6, 2005, together to celebrate the senior couples 60th wedding anniversary. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Politics Portal      The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the... Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was a United States Senator from Connecticut and a Wall Street executive banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

Biography

Early Life

Bush was born in Brick Church, Orange, New Jersey^[1], the son of Harriet Fay and the Rev. James Smith Bush, an Episcopalian priest at Grace Church in Orange. He grew up in New Jersey, San Francisco, and Staten Island, but spent the majority of his adult life in Columbus, Ohio. He married Flora Sheldon on June 20, 1894. They had four children: Prescott Sheldon Bush, Robert (who died in childhood), Mary (Mrs. Frank) House, Margaret (Mrs. Stewart) Clement, and James. Map of City of Orange in Essex County The City of Orange Township is a City in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. ... Harriet Eleanor Fay (October 29, 1829 - February 27, 1924) is the great-grandmother of President George H. W. Bush and great-great-grandmother of President George W. Bush. ... James Smith Bush (June 15, 1825 – November 11, 1889) was an attorney and Episcopal priest and an ancestor of the Bush political family. ... The Episcopal Churchs Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Washington, D.C. is often referred to as the National Cathedral. The Episcopal Church in the United States of America is the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States and several other nations, including dioceses... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Staten Island (IPA: ) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: , Country United States State Ohio Counties Franklin, Delaware, and Fairfield Government  - Mayor Michael B. Coleman (D) Area  - City  212. ... Flora Sheldon (March 17, 1852 in Ohio - September 4, 1920) was the wife of Samuel Prescott Bush and the mother of Prescott Bush, the grandmother of George H. W. Bush, and the great-grandmother of George W. Bush. ... is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was a United States Senator from Connecticut and a Wall Street executive banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. ...

He lost his wife Flora on September 4, 1920 in Narragansett, Rhode Island when she was hit by a car. He remarried to Martha Bell Carter of Milwaukee. is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Image:RI towns Narragansett. ...

Career

Bush graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken in 1884, where he played in one of the earliest regular college football teams. He took an apprenticeship with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad at the Logansport, Indiana shops, later transferring to Dennison, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio, where in 1891 he became Master Mechanic, then in 1894 Superintendent of Motive Power. In 1899 he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to take the position of Superintendent of Motive Power with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Map of New Jersey highlighting Hoboken Image of Hoboken taken by NASA (red line shows where Hoboken is). ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Dennison is a village located in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: , Country United States State Ohio Counties Franklin, Delaware, and Fairfield Government  - Mayor Michael B. Coleman (D) Area  - City  212. ... Nickname: Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Coordinates: , County Milwaukee Government  - Mayor Tom Barrett Area  - City  97 sq mi (251. ... The Milwaukee Road, officially the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. ...

Just two years later, in 1901 he returned to Columbus to be General Manager of Buckeye Steel Castings Company, which manufactured railway parts. The company was run by Frank Rockefeller, the brother of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, and among its clients were the railroads controlled by E. H. Harriman. The Bush and Harriman families would be closely associated at least until the end of World War II. In 1908 Rockefeller retired and Bush became President of Buckeye, a position he would hold until 1927, becoming one of the top industrialists of his generation. External Links: - Governor Announces $3 Million for Buckeye Steel (August 27, 2001) - Buckeye Steel files for Ch. ... Frank Rockefeller c. ... John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. ... Edward Henry Harriman (February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909), better known as E. H. Harriman, was a wealthy railroad executive. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

He was the first president of the Ohio Manufacturers Association^[2][3], and cofounder of Scioto Country Club and Columbus Academy. He was an avid sports buff and a skilled carpenter. Scioto Country Club, is a private country club in, Columbus, Ohio, and has hosted five PGA tournaments throughout its history. ... The Columbus Academy is a private college-preparatory school in Gahanna, Ohio that offers education to students from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade. ...

Political prominence

In the spring of 1918, banker Bernard Baruch was asked to reorganize the War Industries Board as the U.S. prepared to enter World War I, and recruited several prominent businessmen to key posts. Bush became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms, and Ammunition Section, with national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with munitions companies. 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Image:Bernard Baruch. ... The War Industries Board (WIB) was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917 during World War I and reorganized in 1918 under the leadership of Bernard M. Baruch. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Materiel (from the French for material) is the equipment and supplies in Military and commercial supply chain management. ...

Bush served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (as well as of the Huntington National Bank of Columbus).^[2]. In 1931, he was appointed to Herbert Hoover's President's Committee for Unemployment Relief, chaired by Walter S. Gifford, then-President of AT&T.^[4] He was once recommended to serve on the board of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, but Hoover did not feel he was sufficiently nationally known.^[2] The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. ... Huntington National Bank is a U.S. regional banking corporation headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. ... Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933), was a world-famous mining engineer and humanitarian administrator. ... This article describes the former AT&T Corp. ... The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was an independent agency of the United States government chartered during the administration of Herbert Hoover in 1932. ...

Death

Bush died on February 8, 1948 in Columbus; he is interred at Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus.^[5] is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...

See also

• Bush political family

The Bush family:President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, former First Lady Barbara Bush, and former President George H. W. Bush sit surrounded by family in the Red Room (White House) on January 6, 2005, together to celebrate the senior couples 60th wedding anniversary. ...

Notes & references

1. ^ Bush's obituary in the New York Times, February 8, 1948, incorrectly stated that he was born October 13, 1864 on Staten Island, New York.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Phillip R. Shriver. "A Hoover Vignette" 91: 74-82. 
3. ^ Many sources, including Bush family biographer Kevin Phillips, erroneously state he was first president of the National Association of Manufacturers, which was founded in 1895.[1]
4. ^ The President's News Conference of August 25th, 1931. The American Presidency Project, the University of California at Santa Barbara (August 25, 1931). Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
5. ^ Greenlawn Cemetery. Forgotten Ohio. Retrieved on 2006-08-07.

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External links

• Samuel P. Bush at the Notable Names Database
• Samuel Bush residence
• Buckeye Stock Certificates (some history of company)