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Obadiah Newcomb Bush
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Obadiah Newcomb Bush (January 28, 1797 - February 9?, 1851) was an American merchant and an ancestor of the Bush political family. He was the son of blacksmith Timothy Bush, Jr. and Lydia Newcomb, and was born in Penfield, Monroe Co., New York on January 28, 1797. He left home during the War of 1812 and married Harriet Smith (Cambridge, New York, May 12, 1800 - Cincinnati, Ohio, June 21 1867), the daughter of Dr. Sanford Smith (Stonington, Connecticut, February 27 1760 - Scipio, New York, June 15 1815) and his wife Priscilla Whippo Smith (Cambridge, New York, c. 1763 - Pottstown, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1838), in Rochester, New York on November 8, 1821. He and his wife had seven children. Through his son Reverend James Smith Bush, he is the great-great-grandfather of former President George H.W. Bush and the great-great-great-grandfather of President George W. Bush. |
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