Samuel Prescott Bush
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Samuel Prescott Bush October 4, 1863 Brick Church, Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | February 8, 1948 (aged 84) Columbus, Ohio |
| Resting place | Green Lawn Cemetery Columbus, Ohio |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Spouse(s) | Flora Sheldon, Martha Bell Carter |
| Children |
Prescott Sheldon Bush Robert Bush Mary Bush-House Margaret Bush-Clement James Smith Bush II |
| Parent(s) |
James Smith Bush Harriet Fay |
| Relatives |
George H. W. Bush (grandson) George W. Bush (great-grandson) |
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Samuel Prescott Bush (October 4, 1863 – February 8, 1948) was an American industrialist. He was the patriarch of the Bush political family. He was the father of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and great-grandfather of former U.S. President George W. Bush and Governor Jeb Bush.
Bush was born in Brick Church, Orange, New Jersey, to Harriet Eleanor (Fay) and James Smith Bush, an Episcopal 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 five children: Prescott Bush, Robert (who died in childhood), Mary (Mrs. Frank) House, Margaret (Mrs. Stuart) Clement, and James.
His wife, Flora, died on September 4, 1920 in Narragansett, Rhode Island, when she was hit by a car. He later married Martha Bell Carter of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Bush graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey in 1884, where he played on 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.
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