The Life and Times of the Bush Family, it’s Allied families and Secret Societies. - by David Hopkins 2005

Bush, George was a prominent biblical scholar, preacher and
controversialist. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1818
and went on to study at the Princeton Theological Seminary. Bush
was ordained at the Salem Presbytery, Indiana in 1825 and was
appointed pastor of a church in Indianapolis. Here his 'liberal' or
'progressive' religious views came into conflict with those of his
more conservative parishioners. This led to the termination of his
services for the church. From 1831 to 1847, Bush was Professor
of Hebrew and Oriental Literature at New York University. He
also began to write several works, including he Life of Mohammed
(1830), A Grammar of the Hebrew Language (1835), an extensive
series of commentaries on books of the Old Testament, and the
highly controversial Anastasis: or, the doctrine of the resurrection
of the Body, rationally and scripturally considered (1844). Mr.
Bush was also a committed advocate for the abolition of slavery.

In 1845 Bush converted to the New Jerusalem Church. He quickly
became a prominent spokesman of the church, and helped the
spread of the church's magazine. Bush served as editor for the
New Church Review and the spiritualist magazine, The
Hierophant, and he authored and helped disseminate a large
number of Swedenborgian tracts, including the widely read
Statement of reasons for believing the doctrines and disclosures of
Emanuel Swedenborg (1846) and Mesmer and Swedenborg (1847).
Bush continued his promotional work for the New Church until
his death, following a protracted and debilitating illness, in 1859.

Bush and Allied Family Members Who Are
or Were Members of Secret Societies

Name Society Relation to G.W.B
George Herbert Walker Bush Skull & Bones father
George Walker Bush Skull & Bones self
James Smith Bush II Skull & Bones granduncle
Jonathan James Bush, Sr. Skull & Bones uncle
Prescott Sheldon Bush, Sr. Skull & Bones grandfather
Alexander Ellis, Jr. Skull & Bones nephew
Charles Fay Porcellian Club 4th
great-uncle
Dudley Bowditch Fay Porcellian Club 2nd
cousin, 3X r.
Dudley Bowditch Fay II Delphic Club 4th
cousin, 1X r.
Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay Porcellian Club 4th
great-grandfather
George Herbert Walker, Jr. Skull & Bones granduncle
George Herbert Walker III Skull & Bones 1st
cousin, 1X r.
John Mercer Walker, Sr. Skull & Bones granduncle
Louis Walker Skull & Bones granduncle
Ray Carter Walker Skull & Bones 1st
cousin, 1X r.