Timothy Bush
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Timothy Bush, Sr. (c. 1728 - c. 1815), an American blacksmith and soldier, who is the earliest confirmed direct ancestor of the Bush political family. He is the great-great-great-great-great grandfather of president George W. Bush.
He may be the son of Richard Bush and Mary Fairbanks, both of Dedham, Massachusetts. Mary's uncle George Fairbanks was an ancestor of American President William H. Taft. The Fairbanks House still stands in Dedham and is the oldest wooden house in the country. He may also be an illegitimate child of Mary after she was widowed. The relationship is conjectured based on the middle name Fairbanks given to one of Timothy's children.
Bush served in the French and Indian Wars as a soldier between 1755 and 1757. He married Deborah House the daughter of John House on April 12, 1759 in Hebron, Connecticut. They had five children after which they relocated to Norwich, Vermont where Bush was a Captain of a militia company.
By training he was a blacksmith, but when the American Revolution broke out, militia Captain Bush led a company of soldiers for the Continental Army. The family moved around 1810 to Springport, in Cayuga County in the Rochester, New York area. He died in Springport, New York in 1815.
Through his son Timothy Bush, Jr., who was also a blacksmith, descended two American Presidents: George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. He was also the grandfather of biblical scholar George Bush.
