Flora HOUSE (c. 1924- )
1 Flora Sheldon HOUSE1,2,3 (c. 1924- ) [10167]. Born c. 1924, OH.1 Marr Frederick Talbot FAIRCHILD 20 Mar 1953, Tucson, AZ.3
From The New York Times.
December 7, 1952 - "NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec 6 -- Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. House Jr. of this city, formerly of Cleveland, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Flora Sheldon. to Frederick Talbot Fairchild, son of Mrs Frederick A. Fairchild of Darien, and the late Mr. Fairchild.
Miss House attended Laurel School in Cleveland and was graduated from Concord (Mass.) Academy and Vassar College. She is a granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. House of Duluth, Minn., and the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Prescott Bush of Columbus, Ohio.
The prospective bridegroom attended Milton (Mas.) Academy and is with the New York Life Insurance Company. Mr. Fairchild is a grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Elias A. Fairchild of Flushing, L.I., and the late Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Talbot of New York."
March 22, 1953 - "TUCSON, Ariz., March 21 -- Miss Flora Sheldon House, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Edwin House Jr., of New Haven, Conn., formerly of Cleveland, was married yesterday afternoon to Frederick Talbot Fairchild, son of Mrs. Frederick Allen Fairchild of South Norwalk, Conn., formerly of Darien, Conn., and the late Mr. Fairchild, in St. Phillip's in the Hills Protestant Episcopal Church. . . . . . .The bride is a niece of Prescott S. Bush, United States Senator from Connecticut.".
2 Frank Edwin HOUSE , Jr.4,5 (1889-1971) [10110]. Born 14 Aug 1889, MO.1,5,6 Marr Mary BUSH c. 1919.1 Died Jan 1971.6
3 Mary BUSH1,4 (1897-1992) [10109]. Born 18 Dec 1897, NY.1,6 Died 20 Dec 1992, Meriden, CT.6,7
6 Samuel Prescott BUSH4,8,9,10 (1864-1948) [4366]. Born 13 Oct 1864, NJ.4,8,9,10 Died 8 Feb 1948, Columbus, OH.4,8
From the New York Times, February 9, 1948.
SAMUEL P. BUSH, 83, A STEEL EXECUTIVE - Ex-Head of Buckeye Casting Co. Succumbs in Ohio - Once on War Industries Board.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb 8 (AP) - Samuel Prescott Bush, retired industrialist and chairman of the first war chest drive in 1914, died today in the University Hospital at the age of 83. For many years he was a member of the National Association of Manufacturers' executive committee, and he was first president of the Ohio Tax League.
Mr. Bush was president for twenty-two years, until his retirement in 1928, of the Buckeye Steel Casting Company of Columbus. Previously, for eighteen years, he had been with the Pennsylvania Railroad as a superintendent of motive power. He retired a year ago as a director of the Norfolk & Western Railroad.
In 1931 Mr. Bush was a member of the commission appointed by President Hoover to deal with problems of business and unemployment relief.
In the first World War, he was on the War Industries Board, of which Bernard M. Baruch was chairman, and he was closely associated with Mr. Baruch in later years.
Born on Staten Island, on Oct. 13, 1864, Mr. Bush was the son of the late Rev. James Smith Bush, a Protestant Episcopal minister, and the late Harriet Fay Bush of Boston. He was graduated in 1884 from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, from which he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering in 1947.
Mr. Bush had been an Elk and a member of the University and Engineers Clubs of New York. At one time he was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
After the death in 1920 of his first wife, the former Flora Sheldon of Columbus, he married Martha Bell Carter of Milwaukee.
Besides his widow, he leaves two sons, James S. of St. Louis, and Prescott S. Bush of New York and Greenwich, Conn., who is with Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., and two daughters, Mrs. Frank E. House Jr., and Mrs. Stewart H. Clement of New Haven, Conn.
Note: Both the 1920 and 1930 OH census state that Samuel was born in New Jersey, not Staten Island as reported in the obituary.
12 James Smith BUSH8,11,12 (1825-1889) [4365]. Born 15 Jun 1825, Rochester, NY.8,13 Marr Harriet Eleanor FAY 24 Feb 1859, New York, NY.14 Died 11 Nov 1889, Ithaca, NY.8,13,15 Cause: Heart disease.
From the Springfield Republican, Springfield, MA.
December 30, 1883 - "Rev. James S. Bush, who died on Monday after a short illness, at Ithaca, N.Y. (whither he had recently gone from Concord, Mass.) was a man of culture and religious liberality, well known in New York, New Jersey and California, where he had the change of parishes, as in New England where he spent the later years of his active life. He was a clergyman of the Episcopal church, but had lately withdrawn from that body, not recognizing the authority of bishops as laid down in the church code, and having some opinions which varied from the accepted American standard, though perhaps not inconsistent with the doctrine and practice of the church of England. He preached acceptably - of late in Unitarian pulpits - and his published sermons are marked by a spirit truly Christian. He had removed to Ithaca to educate his younger children at Cornell university; his family consisting of three sons and a daughter, and his wife being a member of the Fay family of Cambridge and Boston and a descendant of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, the first minister of Concord.".
13 Harriet Eleanor FAY8,11,12 (1829-1924) [4364]. Born 1829. Died 1924.
7 Flora SHELDON8,10 (1872-1920) [4367]. Born 1872, OH.8,10 Died 4 Sep 1920, Westerly, RI.8,16,17 Cause: Automobile accident.
From the Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY)
September 15, 1920 - "WESTERLY, R.I., Sept 14 -- The death of Mrs Samuel Prescott Bush, of Columbus, O., a wealthy summer resident killed by and automobile at Watch Hill September 4, was due to criminal negligence, Coroner Everett A. Kingsley reported today. Herbert Davis of Mystc, Conn., a broker, is held in bonds of $3,000 on charges of manslaughter in connection with the death. Mrs. Bush's husband is president of the Buckeye Steel Company.".
Sources
| 1 | "1930 OH, Cuyahoga, Cleveland Hts. census". |
| 2 | "Engagement announcement of Flora Sheldon House and Frederick Talbot Fairchild in the New York Times, December 7, 1952". |
| 3 | "Marriage announcement of Flora Sheldon House to Frederick Talbot Fairchild, in the New York Times, March 22, 1953". |
| 4 | "Obituary of Samuel Prescott Bush in the New York Times, February 9, 1948". |
| 5 | "WWI Selective Service registration card". |
| 6 | "Social Security Death Index". |
| 7 | "Death notice of Mary Bush in the New York Times, December 22, 1922". |
| 8 | "Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd". |
| 9 | "1930 OH, Franklin, Columbus census". |
| 10 | "1920 OH, Franklin, Franklin census". |
| 11 | "Marriage announcement of Rev. James S. Bush and Harriet Eleanor Fay in the New York Times, February 25, 1859.". |
| 12 | "1870 CA, San Francisco, San Francisco census". |
| 13 | "Obituary Record of the Graduates of Yale University, 1890.". |
| 14 | "Marriage announcement of Rev. James S. Bush and Harriet Eleanor Fay in the New York Times, February 25, 1859". |
| 15 | "Death notice for Rev. James S. Bush in the New York Times, November 12, 1889". |
| 16 | "Death notice of Mrs. Flora Sheldon Bush in the Idaho Statesman (Boise, ID), September 15, 1920". |
| 17 | "Death notice of Flora Sheldon Bush in the Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY), September 15, 1920". |
