Samuel BUSH (1864-1948)
1 Samuel Prescott BUSH1,2,3,4 (1864-1948) [4366]. Born 13 Oct 1864, NJ.1,2,3,4 Died 8 Feb 1948, Columbus, OH.1,4
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.
2 James Smith BUSH1,5,6 (1825-1889) [4365]. Born 15 Jun 1825, Rochester, NY.1,7 Marr Harriet Eleanor FAY 24 Feb 1859, New York, NY.8 Died 11 Nov 1889, Ithaca, NY.1,7,9 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.".
3 Harriet Eleanor FAY1,5,6 (1829-1924) [4364]. Born 1829. Died 1924.
6 Samuel Howard FAY1,10 (1804- ) [4362]. Born 21 Jul 1804.1,10
12 Samuel Phillips Prescott FAY1,10,11,12,13 (1778-1856) [4360]. Born 10 Jan 1778, Concord, MA.1,10,11,12 Marr Harriet HOWARD 1801.10 Died 18 May 1856, Cambridge, MA.10,12,14
From the History of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1890.
"Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay, son of Jonathan Fay, of Concord, was born in that own January 10, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1803, in the class with John Farrar, James Savage and Samuel Willard. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1803 and first settled at Cambridgeport. He was a councilor in 1818-19, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, and an overseer of Harvard College from 1825 to 1852. On the 12th of May, 1821, he was appointed judge of Probate and afterwards lived in old Cambridge until his death, May 18, 1856."
From the Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA).
May 20, 1856 - "DEATH OF JUDGE FAY. The venerable Hon. Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay, of Cambridge, died in that city on Sunday last. The deceased was Judge of Probate for Middlesex County for a long term of years, and was a man universally respected and esteemed. He was the disciple of Dr. William E. Channing, Judge Story, Rev. Dr. Tuckerman, and other noted men, having graduated at Harvard in 1798. His age was 78.".
13 Harriet HOWARD1,10,13 (1782-1847) [4361]. Born 1782.1 Died 28 Jul 1847, Cambridge, MA.15
7 Susan Montford SHELLMAN1,16 (1808-1887) [4363]. Born 1808.1 Died 13 Jan 1887, Boston, MA.17
Sources
| 1 | "Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd". |
| 2 | "1930 OH, Franklin, Columbus census". |
| 3 | "1920 OH, Franklin, Franklin census". |
| 4 | "Obituary of Samuel Prescott Bush in the New York Times, February 9, 1948". |
| 5 | "Marriage announcement of Rev. James S. Bush and Harriet Eleanor Fay in the New York Times, February 25, 1859.". |
| 6 | "1870 CA, San Francisco, San Francisco census". |
| 7 | "Obituary Record of the Graduates of Yale University, 1890.". |
| 8 | "Marriage announcement of Rev. James S. Bush and Harriet Eleanor Fay in the New York Times, February 25, 1859". |
| 9 | "Death notice for Rev. James S. Bush in the New York Times, November 12, 1889". |
| 10 | "Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898". |
| 11 | "History of the Town of Concord by Lemuel Shattuck, 1835". |
| 12 | "History of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1890". |
| 13 | "Ancestors of George W. Bush *1946 (explanations) by William Addams Reitwiesner". |
| 14 | "Obituary of Judge Fay in the Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), May 20, 1856". |
| 15 | "Death notice of Mrs. Harriet Fay in the Daily Atlas (Boston, MA), August 5, 1847". |
| 16 | "Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application of Howard Fay". |
| 17 | "Death notice of Susan Fay in the New York Times, January 15, 1887". |
