She was born in Scranton, Pa., and was educated in the public and private schools of New Haven, Conn. She studied zoölogy under Prof. A. E. Verrill and in 1879 assumed the position of assistant in the zoölogical museum at Yale.
She was born in Scranton, Pa., and was educated in the public and private schools of New Haven, Conn. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in the sciences at Yale University. Bush studied zoölogy under Prof. A. E. Verrill and in 1879 assumed the position of assistant in the zoölogical museum at Yale.