Prescott BUSH (1895-1972)
1 Prescott Sheldon BUSH1,2,3,4 (1895-1972) [4368]. Born 15 May 1895, Columbus, OH.1,4 Marr Dorothy WALKER 6 Aug 1921, Kennebunkport, ME.2 Died 8 Oct 1972, New York City, NY.1,4
From the Lima News (Lima, OH).
October 9, 1972 - "Father of U.N. Ambassador Dies. By ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRESCOTT Sheldon Bush, former U.S. senator from Connecticut and the father of George Bush, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is dead at 77.
Bush died Sunday at the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York. He lived in Greenwich, Conn.
A staunch Republican, Bush served in the Senate from 1952 to 1963 and gained a reputation as an authority on government finance and the national economy. He was a confidant of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
As a member of the Senate's Public Works Committee, he helped draft the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 which authorized the construction of the national interstate highway system.
In Washington, President Nixon issued a statement saying that in Bush's death "the nation lost a citizen of exceptional honor and integrity.
Before and after his years in the Senate, Bush was a full partner in the Wall Street Investment firm of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from Yale in 1917. He married the former Dorothy Walker in 1921.".
2 Samuel Prescott BUSH1,5,6,7 (1864-1948) [4366]. Born 13 Oct 1864, NJ.1,5,6,7 Died 8 Feb 1948, Columbus, OH.1,7
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.
4 James Smith BUSH1,8,9 (1825-1889) [4365]. Born 15 Jun 1825, Rochester, NY.1,10 Marr Harriet Eleanor FAY 24 Feb 1859, New York, NY.11 Died 11 Nov 1889, Ithaca, NY.1,10,12 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.".
5 Harriet Eleanor FAY1,8,9 (1829-1924) [4364]. Born 1829. Died 1924.
10 Samuel Howard FAY1,13 (1804- ) [4362]. Born 21 Jul 1804.1,13
11 Susan Montford SHELLMAN1,14 (1808-1887) [4363]. Born 1808.1 Died 13 Jan 1887, Boston, MA.15
3 Flora SHELDON1,6 (1872-1920) [4367]. Born 1872, OH.1,6 Died 4 Sep 1920, Westerly, RI.1,16,17 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 | "Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd". |
| 2 | "Wedding announcement of Dorothy Walker and Prescott S. Bush in the New York Timnes, August 7, 1921". |
| 3 | "1930 CT, Fairfield, Greenwich census". |
| 4 | "Obituary of Prescott Sheldon Bush in the New York Times, October 9, 1972". |
| 5 | "1930 OH, Franklin, Columbus census". |
| 6 | "1920 OH, Franklin, Franklin census". |
| 7 | "Obituary of Samuel Prescott Bush in the New York Times, February 9, 1948". |
| 8 | "Marriage announcement of Rev. James S. Bush and Harriet Eleanor Fay in the New York Times, February 25, 1859.". |
| 9 | "1870 CA, San Francisco, San Francisco census". |
| 10 | "Obituary Record of the Graduates of Yale University, 1890.". |
| 11 | "Marriage announcement of Rev. James S. Bush and Harriet Eleanor Fay in the New York Times, February 25, 1859". |
| 12 | "Death notice for Rev. James S. Bush in the New York Times, November 12, 1889". |
| 13 | "Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898". |
| 14 | "Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application of Howard Fay". |
| 15 | "Death notice of Susan Fay in the New York Times, January 15, 1887". |
| 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". |
