James Smith Bush
| James Smith Bush | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 15, 1825 Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 11, 1889 (aged 64) Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | James Smith |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah Freeman Harriet Eleanor Fay |
| Children | James Freeman Bush Samuel Prescott Bush Harold Montfort Bush Eleanor Howard Bush |
| Parent(s) |
Obadiah Bush Harriet Smith |
| Relatives |
George H. W. Bush (great-grandson) George W. Bush (great-great-grandson) See Bush family |
Rev. James Smith Bush (June 15, 1825 – November 11, 1889) was an American attorney, Episcopal priest, religious writer, and an ancestor of the Bush political family. He was the father of business magnate Samuel Prescott Bush, grandfather of former US Senator Prescott Bush, great-grandfather of former US President George H. W. Bush and great-great-grandfather of former US President George W. Bush.
James Smith Bush was born in Rochester, New York, to Obadiah Newcomb Bush and Harriet Smith (1800–1867). In 1851, his father, returning from the California Gold Rush after two years in order to reclaim his family and bring them west, died aboard the ship of his return voyage and was buried at sea.
Bush entered Yale College in 1841 (class of 1844), the first of what would become a long family tradition, as his grandson Prescott Sheldon Bush, great-grandsons George H. W. Bush, Prescott Sheldon Bush, Jr. and William H. T. Bush, great great-grandson George W. Bush, and great-great-great-granddaughter Barbara are all Yale alumni. He is accounted among the over 300 Yale alumni and faculty who supported in 1883 the founding of Wolf's Head Society. After Yale, he returned to Rochester and studied law, joining the bar in 1847.
His first wife, Sarah Freeman, lived in Saratoga Springs. They married in 1851, but she died 18 months later during childbirth.
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