Louise E. Woodruff Bush was born in 1887 to David Woodruff and Frances (sometimes spelled "Francis") Demond in Morristown, NJ. She attended the New Jersey State Normal School where she was president of the Gamma Sigma literary society and studied the Kindergarten course. She graduated in June 1907 and began teaching in East Orange Schools. In 1914, she married John A. Brokaw, who died in four years later. She married William H. Bush (1881-1954) in 1924 and later moved with him to Chatham, NJ. She remained active with Trenton State alumni groups including Gamma Sigma Nu throughout her life. She died in 1963.