Samuel P. Bush belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.
The record lists Samuel P. Bush as American businessman (1863–1948).
Samuel P. Bush was born at Orange in 1863. His recorded nationality is United States. He was educated at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as businessperson and entrepreneur.
Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.
That the business was built from United States shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Samuel P. Bush died in 1948, aged 85. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Educated at Stevens Institute of Technology
