He greatly profited by procuring the names and addresses of ministers around the United States and direct-mailing their congregations to sell wire laundry line.

[3] After the laundry-line venture and other business enterprises, such as buying land in the mountains of Virginia,[3] Bush turned to oil refining.

He invested the new firm of Bush & Denslow, which had an operation on 25th Street in today's Sunset Park area of the South Brooklyn waterfront.

Academic historians recently described Bush's testimony as notable for its "quotable accusations" that subsequently became a "cliché permanently included" in histories of Standard Oil.

[7][8] After winning the 3,000-mile race and the $10,000 purse, Bush decided to sell the Coronet and listed the vessel in England for $30,000 ($1.02 million in 2023).

[9] Rufus and his family (including his son Irving T. Bush) then circumnavigated the globe on the Coronet in 1888, stopping in Hawaii, Japan, India, and elsewhere.

Among other contributions, the terminal funded construction of Bush Tower, a landmark skyscraper on famous 42nd St. next to Times Square in New York, as well as the building of Bush House, London, an elaborate office building that housed the BBC World Service from 1941 until July 2012.