AS PART OF THE 158TH Ibid.; Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 20.
PRESCOTT NEVER SPOKE Author interview with GHWB. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 23.
A PRANK LETTER Ohio State Journal, August 8, 1918.
"3 HIGH MILITARY HONORS" Ibid.
BY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 22.
"IF ONLY THE GREAT EPIC" Flora Sheldon Bush to Samuel P. Bush, "Sunday Morning," undated, Samuel P. Bush Papers.
PRESCOTT WAS DISCHARGED PSB, COHC, 6.
AT A REUNION IN NEW HAVEN IN 1919 Ibid.
WALLACE D. SIMMONS, YALE CLASS OF 1890 Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 34.
ON TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1919, PRESCOTT BUSH REPORTED PSB, COHC, 6.
SCION OF A LARGE ST. LOUIS HARDWARE CONCERN St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 23, 1918, and April 26, 1920.
AT NINTH AND SPRUCE STREETS "Simmons Co.'s New Building," Hardware 1, no. 4 (New York, May 25, 1895), 35.
WITH ST. LOUIS AS A BASE PSB, COHC, 6.
SOME FRIENDS DRIVING BY WP, September 5, 1920.
HERBERT DAVIS OF MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT "Criminal Negligence Caused Woman's Death, Says Coroner," Lexington Herald, September 15, 1920.
SHE DIED INSTANTLY WP, September 5, 1920.
TWO: A Real Son of a Bitch I'M GOING TO THROW YOU Transcript of Beth Bush's oral history of Pitty Duval, September 1981, 67, in Dorothy W. Bush Book Project Files, Barbara P. Bush Collection, GBPL.
THE WALKER HOUSEHOLD AT 12 HORTENSE PLACE St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 15, 1920; St. Louis Republic, April 14 and October 27, 1901. See also 1910 United States Census, Saint Louis, St. Louis City, St. Louis Ward 25, Supervisor's District 10, Enumeration District 0393, Lines 113. I am grateful to Kathy Evans for these details.
BUSH HAD GOTTEN TO KNOW Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 34.
"HE DID NOT KNOW A PARTY" Betsy [Walker] to "Dear Jody, John, et all [sic]," Dorothy W. Bush Book Project Files, Barbara P. Bush Collection, GBPL.
"SHE WAS SO BLOND" Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis.
"PRES SUBSEQUENTLY ASKED" Betsy [Walker] to "Dear Jody, John," GBPL.
"HE WAS KIND OF AN UP-AND-DOWN GUY" Author interview with GHWB.
"HE WAS A REAL SON OF A BITCH" Author interview with G. H. Walker III.
THE WALKERS' WAS A WILD, RICH LIFE Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 911; Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 2532.
TOLD A NEW LINE OF FORD CARS S. Prescott B. Clement to Barbara P. Bush, December 2, 1986, Dorothy W. Bush Book Project Files, Barbara P. Bush Collection, GBPL.
TEMPERAMENTAL, IMPERIOUS Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 2627.
HE BOXED WITH HIS SONS Author interview with G. H. Walker III.
URGED THEM TO SETTLE DISPUTES Ibid.
"HE PULLED NO PUNCHES" Ibid.
THE WALKERS WERE AS OLD A FAMILY King, George Bush, 13. The Walkers included Thomas Walker, originally of England, who flourished briefly in the transatlantic slave trade in the 1780s and '90s. His youngest son, George E., was the great-great-grandfather of GHWB. (Simon Akam, "George W. Bush's Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Was a Slave Trader," June 20, 2013, www.slate.com/articles/life/history_lesson/2013/06/george_w_bush_and_slavery_the_president_and_his_father_are_descendants_of.single.html. Akam noted that Thomas Walker's slave trading did not lead to "lasting prosperity" for his progeny.
THEY SETTLED ALONG Willard King, Lincoln's Manager: David Davis (Cambridge, Mass., 1960), 16; Roger Hughes, "Twists, Turns, Ties: David Davis & George Bush," The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.), November 7, 2004, and "Legacy," Illinois Times, April 5, 2007, illinoistimes.com/article-3993-legacy.html. Hughes did pioneering research on the Walker family origins; I am in his debt. I am also grateful to G. H. Walker III, Kathy Evans, and Pat Schley for guidance on the Walker family history, particularly on the David Davis connection.
SLAVE-OWNING PLANTERS King, Lincoln's Manager, 35; Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 8.
IN THE 1830s Hughes, "Legacy," April 5, 2007. See also Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 8.
FUTURE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DAVID DAVIS Hughes, "Twists, Turns, Ties," November 7, 2004.
SEEING THAT YOUNG DAVID DAVIS WALKER Ibid. "I shall send David Walker to Beloit, to the English school to stay there a year," Davis wrote to his own son George Perrin Davis in August 1854. "I hope he will improve. He needs different influences from what he has received and needs to be among good people." (Ibid.) "I'VE HAD ENOUGH" Author interview with G. H. Walker III.
LIKELY CONNECTED HIM WITH Hughes, "Twists, Turns, Ties," November 7, 2004.
MARRYING MARTHA BEAKY Author interview with G. H. Walker III; "A Bit of Walker Family History as Recalled by Dorothy Walker Bush," Materials on GB's Family, Barbara P. Bush Collection, GBPL. "In the Midwest, David Walker maintained the Southern attitude about race, though with a contemporary overlay of social Darwinism," wrote Jacob Weisberg. "He was a believer in eugenics and the 'unwritten law' of lynching. In a letter to the editor of the St. Louis Republic published in 1914, David Walker described Negroes as a greater menace than prostitution and 'all the other evils combined.'" (Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 8.) IN 1875 Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 8.
NAMED FOR THE ANGLICAN PRIEST AND POET Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 24.
A GRANDDAUGHTER WHO SPENT Transcript of Beth Bush's oral history of Pitty Duval, September 1981, 24, Dorothy W. Bush Book Project Files, Barbara P. Bush Collection, GBPL; Flora House Fairchild, "Orchids to Dotty," 23, Dorothy W. Bush Book Project Files, Barbara P. Bush Collection, GBPL.
"OH, THAT HOUSE MUST BE PAINTED" Transcript of Beth Bush's oral history of Pitty Duval, September 1981, 4, Dorothy W. Bush Book Project Files, Barbara P. Bush Collection, GBPL.
HE ATTENDED PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS Author interviews with Nancy Bush Ellis and G. H. Walker III.
DISPATCHED HIM Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 25.
HIS PARENTS HOPED HE WOULD RETURN Dorothy Walker Bush, "A Bit of Walker Family History as Recalled by Dorothy Walker Bush," 1, Materials on GB's Family, Barbara P. Bush Collection, GBPL.
"BUT AS A RESULT" Ibid., 1.
BERT WALKER JOINED Author interview with G. H. Walker III.
"HE DID NOT WANT" Ibid.
ONE DAY AT THE WAREHOUSE Ibid.
"I'M NEVER GOING BACK" Ibid.
THE PRICE OF THE MARRIAGE Ibid.
"IF YOU MARRY HER" Green, George Bush, 1819. G. H. Walker and Loulie Wear were married in the Wears' house on McPherson by the (Presbyterian) Reverend John F. Cannon. (St. Louis Post Dispatch, January 11, 1899.) See also Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 89.
AN ENCLAVE FOR YOUNG, RICH FAMILIES Dorothy Walker Bush, "A Bit of Walker Family History," 45, GBPL.
THE LAMBERTS Ibid.
ANOTHER WAS EUGENE CUENDET Ibid.
THE TIME HE SHOT Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 10.
THE NEAR-RIOT HE INSTIGATED Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 2829.
MOTTO WAS Ibid.
THE DRUNKEN EVENING Ibid.
"GET ME WHISKEY" "Speech for Walker Cup Dinner," 1985, GB Material, Looking Forward and Miscellaneous Files, VIC.
HE SHARED A YACHT Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis.
WON THE HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING TITLE Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 24.
SERVED AS PRESIDENT St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 15, 1920.
WALKER CUP Robert Browning, A History of Golf: The Royal and Ancient Game (New York, 1955), 204.
DURING A TROUBLED ECONOMIC HOUR Dorothy Walker Bush, "Bit of Walker Family History," 5, GBPL.
HAD BOUGHT LAND TOGETHER Author interviews with GHWB and Nancy Bush Ellis.
ON MONDAY, JULY 1, 1901, DOROTHY WEAR WALKER WAS BORN Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis.
THERE WAS A FRENCH GOVERNESS Dorothy Walker Bush, "Bit of Walker Family History," 5, GBPL.
DOROTHY AND HER SISTER, NANCY, ATTENDED THE MARY INSTITUTE Ibid., 56.
TAILORED BY A WOMAN Ibid.
WALKED TO LESSONS WITH HER PIANO TEACHER Ibid., 6.
SHE WAS SENT TO MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 34.
AT ST. ANN'S Author interview with GHWB.
IN ST. LOUIS THEY BELONGED TO WESTMINSTER Dorothy Walker Bush, "Bit of Walker Family History," 6, GBPL.
ATTENDED SERVICES AT LEAST THREE TIMES A WEEK Ibid.
TO REACH THE EAST EACH SUMMER Author interview with GHWB.
THE TRUNKS WERE SENT AHEAD Pitty Duval oral history, 3, GBPL.
THE AUTHORS BOOTH TARKINGTON Ibid., 5. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 25.
THE TOWN PLAYHOUSE Author interviews with Nancy Bush Ellis and GHWB.
THERE WERE CARNIVALS Pitty Duval oral history, 3, GBPL.
AT sUMMER'S END Dorothy Walker Bush, "Bit of Walker Family History," 6, GBPL.
AS HIS FATHER, D. D. WALKER, GREW OLDER Author interview with G. H. Walker III. See also "Guardian for Property of David D. Walker Asked For," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 14, 1918; "D. D. Walker Gave Away $300,000 in 4 Years, Son Says," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 19, 1918; "Gifts of About $224,000 Revealed by D. D. Walker," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 5, 1918; "D. D. Walker Cuts Off Sons in Will," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 31, 1918; "Sons Left Nothing by D. D. Walker's Will," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 1, 1918.
D. D. WAS SO ENRAGED Author interview with G. H. Walker III.
"IF YOU CROSS THAT LINE" Ibid.
WHEN THE FATHER DIED "Probate Judge Rejects Will of D. D. Walker Sr.," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 19, 1918. D. D. Walker's estate of $750,000 was divided among five family members, including G. H. Walker. (Ibid.) UNCLE WILL WALKER Pitty Duval oral history, 67, GBPL.
"THIS IS THE WAY" Ibid.
"I WAS TERRIFIED" Ibid., 7.
WHEN HER BROTHER HERBIE REFUSED Dorothy Walker Bush, "Bit of Walker Family History," 7, GBPL.
DOROTHY WAS AT THE PLATE "GHWB's Recollections of Dorothy Walker Bush on the Occasion of Mother's Day," Mrs. Prescott Bush (Senior) Materials, GHWB Collection, GBPL. See also Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 36.
SHE FELL AND INJURED HERSELF "GHWB's Recollections of Dorothy Walker Bush on the Occasion of Mother's Day," Mrs. Prescott Bush (Senior) Materials, GHWB Collection, GBPL.
THE HARRIMAN FAMILY OF NEW YORK ASKED Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 33. See also "G. H. Walker to Head New Financial House," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 15, 1920; and "Form Securities Company: G. H. Walker of St. Louis Backed by N.Y. Capital Organizes Firm," NYT, January 15, 1920.
ACQUIRING A HOME IN THE CITY Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 39.
MARRIED AT ST. ANN'S Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis.
JOHN POYNTZ TYLER NYT, August 7, 1921.
SEVERAL GUESTS ARRIVED Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis.
LIVED IN ST. LOUIS FOR A TIME Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 36; Betsy [Walker] to "Dear Jody, John," GBPL.
MOVED BRIEFLY IN KINGSPORT LF, 24; Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 36.
STILL WITH SIMMONS LF, 24.
MANAGED THE SALE OF A SADDLERY PLANT Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 36. Prescott Bush tells this story and details his sundry moves for his job in this period, at PSB COH, 68.
THERE WERE A NUMBER OF MOVES Schweizer and Schweizer, Bushes, 36.
BUSH DISCOVERED A CASE Betsy [Walker] to "Dear Jody, John," GBPL.