Ancestry of Dr.
Vannevar Bush

President, Carnegie Institution of Science

Richard Perry Bush Jr.

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• • Father of Vannevar Bush — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Richard Perry Bush 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Willis Williams   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Jun 1855 
  • Birth Location:
  • Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Apr 1926 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Emma Linwood Paine
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1881 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Edith Linwood Bush

  Reba M. Bush

  Vannevar Bush (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Richard Perry Bush Jr.

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Suffolk County, 1900, Chelsea Ward 3, E.D. 1562, Sheet 5B, Image 10 of 30.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Barnstable County, 1860, Provincetown, p. 151, Image 29 of 84.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/15/2024).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Grand Lodge of Masons Membership Cards, 1733-1990, Bro-Byx Surnames, p. 6442, Record for Richard Perry Bush Jr.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1916-1920, Chelsea, Vol. 639, p. 314, Marriage of son Vannevar Bush and Phoebe Clara Davis.
  • ⁶ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Current Volume F, 1939-42, New York: James T. White and Company (1942), 67.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 523.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Vannevar Bush", (accessed 07/15/2024).