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| | New England Historic Genealogical Society |
 | | Bush’s distant kinsmen, all descended from New England immigrant forebears (or their children or English parents) of Samuel Prescott Bush, the president’s grandfather, are Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, R.B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, W.H. Taft, Calvin Coolidge, F.D. Roosevelt, R.M. Nixon, and Gerald Ford. |
 | | The ancestry of Bush’s paternal grandmother, Flora Sheldon, is mostly unexplored, and the origins of Clarissa Montfort, Catharine Shriner, Elizabeth Gault, Nancy R. McCune, and Peter and Eliza (Dawson) Force merit monographic study by area specialists. |
 | | Elaine Bush Prince of Framingham published her fine study of “The Patrilineal Descent of Vice President Bush” in the NEXUS 3(1986): 124-25, and allowed me to photocopy many of her notes. |
| www.newenglandancestors.org /education/articles/NEXUS/notable_kin_some_ancestors_presidential_kinships_659_90603.asp (2346 words) |
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