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Samuel P. Bush
Industrialist + Businessman + Entrepreneur
Male
Born
Oct 4, 1863
Died
Feb 8, 1948
Samuel Prescott Bush was an American industrialist and entrepreneur, and the patriarch of the Bush political family. He was the father of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of former U. S President George H. W. Bush, and great-grandfather of former… Read More
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Samuel P. Bush
d.1948
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CHILDHOOD
1863
Birth
Born on October 4, 1863.
TWENTIES
1884
20 Years Old
Bush graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey in 1884, where he played on one of the earliest regular college football teams.
1891
27 Years Old
He 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.
THIRTIES
1899
35 Years Old
In 1899, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to take the position of Superintendent of Motive Power with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
1901
37 Years Old
In 1901, Bush returned to Columbus to be General Manager of Buckeye Steel Castings Company, which manufactured railway parts.
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FORTIES
1908
44 Years Old
In 1908, Rockefeller retired and Bush became President of Buckeye, a position he would hold until 1927, becoming one of the top industrialists of his generation.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1931
67 Years Old
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, chaired by Walter S. Gifford, then-President of AT&T.
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1948
84 Years Old
Bush died on February 8, 1948, aged 84, in Columbus; he is interred at Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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