James Smith Bush

James Smith Bush ( born June 15, 1825 Rochester, New York, † November 11, 1889 in Ithaca, New York) was an American Anglican theologian and an ancestor of entrepreneurs and politicians Bush family. He was born the son of Obadiah Newcomb Bush and his wife, Harriet Smith. He was the father of industrialist Samuel Prescott Bush, the grandfather of Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush, grandfather of President George HW Bush and great-grandfather of President George W. Bush.

Life

From 1841-1844 Bush studied law at Yale University, after which he continued his legal education in his native city, where he was awarded in 1847 the admission to the bar. In 1851 he married Sarah Freeman, who died after 18 months of marriage. Originally from a Presbyterian family Bush, who had adopted the Anglican confession of his deceased wife, began in the same year in Saratoga Springs, New York, his theological studies in terms of a ministry in the Episcopal Church. In 1855 he was ordained a deacon in the church and Grace Church in Orange, New Jersey, used. In 1856 he was ordained a priest and was until 1867 active in Orange. On February 24, 1859, he married Harriet Eleanor Fay ( born October 29, 1829 † February 27, 1924 ). The couple had four children:

• James Freeman Bush, * June 15, 1860
• Samuel Prescott Bush, * October 4, 1863
• Harriet Montfort Bush, * November 14, 1871
• Eleanor Howard Bush, * November 7, 1873

In December 1867, James Smith Bush pastor at Grace Church in San Francisco, California, the destroyed in the earthquake of 1906 predecessor of the later Grace Cathedral, which serves as a bishop's church of the Anglican Diocese of San Francisco since 1964. In 1872 he returned to the eastern United States and was pastor of Church of the Ascension on Staten Iceland, New York. In 1884 he took a pastorate in Concord, Massachusetts. In November 1888 Bush resigned his ministry within the Anglican Church and joined the Unitarianism to. A few months later he died suddenly. His wife and all four children survived him.

James Smith Bush was the author of two theological books, several of his sermons and lectures published during his lifetime in print. His farewell sermon to his congregation on Staten Iceland was reviewed in 1884 by the New York Times. The Literary World in 1889 brought an obituary to his death. An obituary from Yale University (1890) honors James Smith Bush with the words: ". Mr. Bush had a clear, vigorous style as a writer, a fine presence, and strong personal magnetism" ( Mr. Bush had a clear, powerful style as an author, a pleasant way and strong personal magnetism. )

Printed works

• More Words About the Bible. Lovell, New York 1883 ( 83 pages )
• The Evidence of Faith. Osgood, Boston 1885 (357 pages)

Sermons and lectures

• The Atonement. A Sermon, Preached Before the Convention of the Diocese of New Jersey, on Wednesday, the 27th Day of May, AD, 1863. No.. 762 Broadway, New York 1863 ( 32 pages)
• Death of President Lincoln. A Sermon, Preached in Grace Church, Orange, New Jersey, Easter, April 16, 1865. Gardner, Orange, NJ 1865 (8 pages)
• The Priesthood and absolution. A Paper Read Before the Church Congress, in Cincinnnati, Oct. 17, 1878. [ Unnamed publisher, no place ] 1878 ( 8 pages)