Samuel P. Bush

Samuel Prescott Bush ( * October 4, 1863 in Brick Church, New Jersey, now part of the city of East Orange, † February 8, 1948 in Columbus, Ohio ) was an American industrialist and patriarch of the politically active family Bush. He was born the son of Anglican priest James Smith Bush and Harriet Eleanor Fay his wife. He was the father of Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush, grandfather of President George HW Bush and grandfather of President George W. Bush.

An essential part of the American elite in political and economic matters comes from this region, as measured by the life styles of the 19th century. Approx. 20 km away is the elite Princeton University, of which about 15 km from the place Rocktown, the Erstsiedlungsort the German -born Rockefeller family of rock field not far from Neuwied.

Life

Bush graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1884. He reached in 1891 the title of Master Mechanic, 1894 Superintendent of Motive Power. In 1899, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to accept the position of Superintendent of Motive Power at the railway company St. Paul and Pacific Railroad from Chicago.

In 1901 he returned to Columbus and became General Manager of Buckeye Steel Castings Company which manufactured parts for railways. Head of the company was Frank Rockefeller, the brother of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, among his clients were the company of Edward Henry Harriman. The Bush and Harriman families were closely connected to the end of the Second World War. 1908 resigned Rockefeller, and Bush became President of Buckeye, held the position until 1927 and was one of the leading U.S. industrialists of his generation.

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• Industrialist
• Entrepreneurs (19th Century )
• Entrepreneur ( 20th century)
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• Person (Milwaukee )
• Americans
• Born in 1863
• Died in 1948
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