Profile
James Smith Bush
Lawyer + Priest + Religious
Male
Born
Jun 15, 1825
Hometown
Rochester, New York
Died
Nov 11, 1889
Death Place
Ithaca, New York
Rev. James Smith Bush was an attorney, Episcopal priest, and religious writer, and an ancestor of the Bush political family. He was the father of business magnate Samuel Prescott Bush, grandfather of US Senator Prescott Bush, great-grandfather of former… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1825
Birth
Born on June 15, 1825.
TEENAGE
1841
16 Years Old
Bush entered Yale University in 1841 (class of 1844), the first of what would become a long family tradition, as his grandson Prescott Sheldon Bush, great-grandsons George H.W. Bush, Prescott Sheldon Bush, Jr. and William H.T. Bush, great great-grandson George W. Bush, and great-great-great-granddaughter Barbara are all Yale alumni.
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THIRTIES
1855
30 Years Old
This prompted Bush to study divinity with the rector of the Episcopal church there. Ordained a deacon in 1855, he was appointed rector at the newly organized Grace Church in Orange, New Jersey.
1859
34 Years Old
On February 24, 1859, he married Harriet Eleanor Fay, daughter of Samuel Howard and Susan Shellman Fay, at Trinity Church, New York City.
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FORTIES
1865
40 Years Old
In 1865-66, having been given a health sabbatical by his church, he traveled to San Francisco via the Straits of Magellan on the ironclad monitor with Commodore John Rodgers (a parishioner of his), with international goodwill stops along the way.
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1867
42 Years Old
In 1867-1872 he was called to Grace Church (later Cathedral) in San Francisco, but troubled by family obligations, only stayed five years.
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1872
47 Years Old
In 1872 he took a call from Church of the Ascension at West Brighton, Staten Island.
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FIFTIES
1883
58 Years Old
In 1883 he published a collection of sermons called More Words About the Bible, a response to his colleague Heber Newton's book Uses of the Bible.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1885
60 Years Old
In 1885, his book Evidence of Faith was reviewed by The Literary World as "clear, simple, and unpretending", and summarized as an argument against supernatural explanations for God.
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1888
63 Years Old
He retired from to Concord, Massachusetts, and in 1888 left the Episcopal Church altogether and became a Unitarian.
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1889
64 Years Old
He moved to Ithaca, New York where he died suddenly while raking leaves in 1889.
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