The beginnings of the Bush family wealth is Samuel Prescott Bush. Son of a Episcopal priest who rose from an apprenticeship to being a master mechanic then superintendent of motive power for a railroad in the mid-west. He was then hired by a railroad parts company ran by JD Rockefeller's brother, he took over when the brother retired. There he became friends with the railroad magnate E. H. Harriman. That is were the advantages spring from.
The key to Bush family wealth is the hard work and near industrial genius of Samuel Prescott Bush and his connections to the Harriman family. Without that his sons don't go to prep schools, go to Ivy universities, and marry Harriman connected wives.
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