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Revision as of 16:10, 20 September 2015

Person.png Samuel Bush  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Businessman)
BornSamuel Prescott Bush
1863-10-04
Brick Church, Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, U.S.
Died1948-02-08 (Age 84)
Columbus, Ohio
ReligionEpiscopal
Parents • James Smith Bush
• Harriet Fay
Children • Prescott Sheldon Bush
• Robert Bush Mary Bush-House
• Margaret Bush-Clement James Smith Bush II
Spouse • Flora Sheldon
• Martha Bell Carter
Member ofBush family
Bush family patriarch, from a wealthy background, who got into railroads and then finance.

Background

Bush graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey in 1884.

Career

Bush 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 to take the position of Superintendent of Motive Power with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.

In 1901, Bush returned to Columbus to be General Manager of Buckeye Steel Castings company, which manufactured railway parts. The company was run by Frank Rockefeller, the brother of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, and among its clients were the railroads controlled by E. H. Harriman. The Bush and Harriman families were to be closely associated from then on. In 1908, Rockefeller retired and Bush became president of Buckeye, a position he would hold until 1927, becoming a wealthy industrialist.

Samuel Bush served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (as well as of the Huntington National Bank of Columbus). In 1931, he was appointed to Herbert Hoover's President's Committee for Unemployment Relief.


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