[citation needed] He grew up in New Jersey, San Francisco, and Staten Island, but spent the majority of his adult life in Columbus, Ohio.

[3] Bush graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1884,[3] where he played on one of the earliest regular college football teams.

[citation needed] In 1901, Bush returned to Columbus to be general manager of Buckeye Steel Castings Company, which manufactured railway parts.

Bush became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms, and Ammunition Section, with national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with munitions companies.

[4] 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.