death_date death_place religion birth_place children other_names parents birth_date spouse article_title name
11 november 1889 ithaca , new york , usa episcopal rochester , new york , usa james eleanor howard bush freeman bush samuel prescott bush harold montfort bush james smith obadiah -rrb- bush -lrb- father -rrb- harriet smith -lrb- mother 15 june 1825 harriet fay james smith bush
 james smith bush
james smith bush

rev. james smith bush -lrb- june 15 , 1825 -- november 11 , 1889 -rrb- 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 former us senator prescott bush , great-grandfather of former us president george h. w. bush and great-great-grandfather of former us president george w. bush .
