User:Corneliabush

Cornelia Wendell Bush

Biography
Cornelia Wendell Bush (1958- ) was born in New York State to American parents of British and Dutch ancestry. As a child and young adult, she volunteered at her family's museum, founded by entrepreneur Roscoe William Smith, the Museum Village of Smith's Clove. (Roscoe Smith founded the Orange & Rockland Electric Company, today part of Consolidated Edison.)

Cornelia graduated from the University of Virginia in 1980 and from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management in 1992. After a career in the telecommunications industry, she returned to her early interest in Colonial American history and took up the cause of historic preservation. In 2011, she was sworn in as the sixth County Historian of her native Orange County, New York, and is the first woman to hold the Office.

Historic Preservation Projects
She received the prestigious DeWitt Clinton Masonic Award for Community Service from the F&AM Grand Lodge NY State in 1995 for her work in saving an old stage coach inn housing the oldest Masonic Meeting Room in the State, known locally as McGarrah's Inn or Goff's Tavern. She is the Founder of the Historic District of the Village of Monroe, listed on the New York State and National Historic Registers of Historic Places. She served as National Co-Chair for Marking and Preservation for the 13,000 member organization The National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, and in that capacity led the effort to bring attention to historic properties at risk in the Northeastern United States.

Author & Editor
Cornelia is listed with Amazon Author Central. She served as Historian to the Clan MacRae for North America, and developed a database [the resulting book is called MacRaes to America!! and is available through Amazon]. She was previously the Senior Editor of the book The Village of Monroe, the Celebration of the Century.

Filmography
Cornelia appears in the film The Tartan Apple (Skye Films, 2003).

Links

 * https://www.facebook.com/villageofmonroehistoricdistrict?fref=ts
 * http://www.corneliabush.com/
 * http://www.museumvillage.org/
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_of_Monroe_Historic_District
 * http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Orange/districts.html
 * http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8I4BI
 * http://www.macrae.org/
 * http://www.rfwp.com/series63.htm#517
 * http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310208/
 * Bush, Cornelia Wendell (2005). Smith's Clove, The Early History of the Village of Monroe, ISBN-13: 978-1514331613, ISBN-10: 1514331616, BISAC: History / United States / State & Local / General, CreateSpace eStore: https://www.createspace.com/5557507