Bloodlines. Bush family, 1790s to GHWB.

 

Obadiah Bush - prospector/businessman/abolitionist; petitioned NY to secede from union

Father: blacksmith Timothy Bush Jr.

Paternal grandfather: American Revolution Capt. Timothy Bush Sr.

7 children incl. James Smith Bush

 

Rev. James Smith Bush - attorney, Episcopal priest/religious writer

NY; YALE

Married Sarah FREEMAN (died in childbirth)

Married Harriet Eleanor FAY: 7th gen removed from "immigrant patriarch" John Fay (England)

4 children:

James Freeman Bush

Samuel Prescott Bush

Harold Monfort Bush

Eleanor Howard Bush

 

Samuel Prescott Bush - businessman/railway industrialist; college football

NJ; STEVENS

Worked for Buckeye Steel Casings Co. owned by Frank Rockefeller (brother of John); became president 1908 when Rockefeller retired; clients included EH HARRIMAN (Union Pacific, Southern Pacific); HARRIMANS cousins to VANDERBILTS

First president of Ohio Manuf. Assoc.; cofounder Columbus Academy; cofounder Scioto Country Club

Married Flora SHELDON, granddaughter of LIVINGSTON family (Dutch nobility)

Married Martha Bell CARTER (no children)

4 children:

Prescott Sheldon Bush

Robert Sheldon Bush (died in childhood)

Mary Eleanor Bush (married Frank HOUSE)

James Smith Bush (dir. Export-Import Bank, pres. Northwest International Bank)

 

Prescott Sheldon Bush - senator; artillery officer WWI, partner/VP (1924) of A Harriman & Co.

OH; YALE (Skull and Bones)

Brown Bros./Harriman merger (mid-30s) - 16 partners: 11 of which Yale, 8 of which Skull & Bones - BBH acted as US base for Fritz THYSSEN (Hitler financier)

Head of US Golf Assoc.; member of Yale Corporation

Introduced to chairman of CBS by W. Averell HARRIMAN; then joined CBS BOD

Founding member of Union Banking Corp. with W. Averell HARRIMAN

Longtime friends with Nelson ROCKEFELLER; publicly denounced NR for affair

Causes: American Birth Control League; Planned Parenthood

Geronimo's skull @ YALE

Married Dorothy WALKER (father George Herbert WALKER was president of A Harriman and Co., also head of US Golf Assoc.)

Five children:

Prescott Bush Jr. (YALE, Pan Am, US-China Chamber of Commerce founder, Carver Center)

George Herbert Walker Bush

Nancy Walker Bush ELLIS (VASSAR, NAACP, arts/humanities, married Alexander ELLIS II; children include Joe ELLIS, owner Denver Broncos)

Jonathan James Bush (YALE/Skull & Bones, banking, Arbusto Energy; father of Billy Bush)

William "Bucky" Bush (YALE, banking, BOD Blue Cross Blue Shield)

 

George Herbert Walker Bush - VP, POTUS, DCI, UN Amb.; naval aviator/photographic officer

MA; YALE (Skull & Bones); nickname: "Skin"

Dresser Industries (subsidiary of Brown Brothers/Harriman); Zapata petroleum

Ambassador to UN/chairman of RNC under Nixon

DCI under Ford

Married Barbara PIERCE (daughter of Marvin PIERCE, McCall's/Red Book magazine founder; descendant of colonist Thomas PIERCE; relation to Franklin PIERCE POTUS 14)