The Family Study Guide

The chapter opens as Prescott Bush is a troublesome thirteen year old boy. His mother, Flora Sheldon Bush, is nervous about his habit of playing practical jokes. She hopes that sending him off to boarding school in Rhode Island will help. The year is 1908 and that fall young Prescott leaves his home in Ohio to take up residence in Rhode Island at St. George's School. He leaves behind his family who own a steel manufacturing plant. (read more)