John E. Bush (Hawaii politician)
John Edward Bush (February 15, 1842 – June 28, 1906), also known as John Edwin Bush, was a politician and newspaper publisher in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
John E. Bush
Hawaii
United States
Early life[edit]
John E. Bush was born in Honolulu on February 15, 1842.[1] He was the son of George Henry Bush (1807–1853), a native of Suffolk, who came to Hawaii from England in 1825, and his Hawaiian wife. Thus he was of mixed native Hawaiian and Caucasian descent (known as hapa haole). Growing up in a multicultural environment, he could read, write, and speak at least the English and Hawaiian language fluently. He sometimes used ʻAiluene Buki as the Hawaiian version of his name.[2] He worked for a while on a whaling ship, and then learned the printing trade at the offices of the Hawaiian Gazette.[1] His younger brother James Wood Bush was a sailor in the Union Navy and veteran of the American Civil War.[3]
Family life and legacy[edit]
He first married Mary Ann Peters,[1] who was considered one of the most beautiful women in the Hawaiian Islands and presented a lei around the neck of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh on his visit to Hawaii in 1869.[23]: 34 In 1883, she fell off her horse while riding in the Pali. The accident left her unconscious and she died shortly of a fractured skull.[24]
After her death, he married Mary Julia Glennie (1868–1932) in 1884.
He had a son also named John Edward Bush, born on January 31, 1890, and several other children. He died on June 28, 1906, from a stroke, and was buried in Makiki Cemetery.[1][25]
A street was named Bush Lane for him in Honolulu near the Punchbowl Crater at 21°19′1″N 157°51′2″W / 21.31694°N 157.85056°W.[15]