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Adolphus Busch
Eberhard Anheuser
Elisa “Lilly” Anheuser
Busch
Anna Anheuser
Busch
Dorothea Richter
Anheuser
Edmee Busch
Reisinger
Virginia Lee Wiley
Susie Busch-
Transou
August A. Busch Sr.
Nellie Busch
Magnus Loeb
Gertrude “Trudy” Busch
Valentine
Gertrude “Trudy” Buholzer
William “Billy” Busch
Steven August Busch
James B. Orthwein
Katherine Orthwein
Sam Edison Woods
Edward Scharrer
Dr. Carl Borchardt
Adalbert von
Gontard Jr.
Marie Williams
Paul C. von
Gontard
Conseulo Wilson von
Gontard
Anna Louise Busch Faust
Parker Condie
Sr.
Herbert Condie
III
MargotCondie
Walter “Buddy”
Reisinger Jr
Hugo Reisinger
Adolphus Busch IV
Alison Marie Busch Clark
Adolphus Busch V
Katrina Martina
Ann Stryker
Kathryn “Kate”
Thatcher
Horace Flanigan
Walter Busch
Reisinger
Elizabeth Chalmers Reisinger
Walter Chalmers Reisinger
Gloria Reisinger
Vivian Uyeda
Reisinger
Marion Bullard
OsaPearson
Curt Reisinger
Peter M.
Flanigan
Alice “Pummie”
Edna Busch Gronewaldt
Carl Werner Gronewaldt
Webster Tilton
Arthur B. Preece
Louis A. Hager Sr
Alice Ziesemann
Busch
Adolphus Magnus
Jacob Loeb
Andrew Busch
Leicester Busch Faust
C. Drummond
Jones
Margaret Snyder
Virginia Maria Busch
Robert Hermann
Sr.
Lilly Christy Busch
Hermann
Edward Faust
Edward Busch
Peter Busch
Emilee Busch
Alex Busch
Martha Busch
Carl Busch
Drummond “Drum” Busch Hadley
Willis Dean
Hadley Jr. Hope
Hadley Burghardt
Adolphus Busch
Orthwein Jr. Stephen
Orthwein
Peter Orthwein
David Orthwein
Charles E. Greenough
Aimee Magnus Flanigan
Marie Christy Church
Catherine “Kitty” Milliken Busch
Florence McRhea Lambert
Sallie Marie
Wheeler
Marie Eleanor Condie
Herbert Condie Jr
Peter Busch
August Busch IV
August Busch III
Percy J. Orthwein
II
Adolphus Busch Jr.
Marie Busch Jones
Willis Dean
Hadley
Jacqueline Busch Jones Hadley
Adolphus Harvey
von Gontard
Clara von
Gontard
Paul Theodore
von Gontard
Gert von Gontard
Yvonne Sonja
Audrey Faust
Wallace
Adalbert von
Gontard III Marie
Eugenie von Gontard
Victoria von
Gontard
Spycos Skouras
Jr.
Carlota “Lotsie”
Hermann Holton
Richard Holton
Robert Hermann
Jr.
Carlota “Lotsie” Busch
Webster
Elizabeth Overton Busch
Lily Claire von
Gontard
Bernard Berghaus
George Werner
Schieber
Clara Busch
von Gontard
Hal Garwood Transou
III
Wilhelmina “Minnie”
Busch Scharrer
Borchardt Woods
August A. Busch Jr.
Adalbert “Adie” von
Gontard
Susanne Schilling
von Gontard
Baron Paul von Gontard
James Busch
Orthwein
Romaine Pierce
Romaine Clara Busch
Orthwein
Christopher Orthwein
Katherine Gatch
Wheeler
Loris
Clara Busch
Orthwein
Percy Orthwein
Adolphus Busch
Orthwein
Nancy Thornley Orthwein
Nancy Morrison
Paul Victor
von Gontard
Mary Griesedieck
Parker von
GontardPhillip
von Gontard
Patrick von
GontardPaul von
Gontard
Susie von
GontardPerry von
Gontard
Percy von
GontardPeter von
Gontard
Elizabeth Overton Dozier Adolphus
Busch III
Susan Hornibrook
Edward Bullard
Reisinger
Ronald Busch
Reisinger
Walter Busch
Reisinger II
John Flanigan
Beatrice Busch
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All the Kings’ Children
B U S C H
A City of fAMiLiES
thE BuSChES And thEir progEny MAdE SoME intErESting MArriAgES. hErE’S how ALL thoSE fAMiLy nAMES intErtwinEd.
The Kingly SucceSSion / 1. Eberhard Anheuser: Son of a German wine family, he came to the new country and became a soapmaker, candlemaker, brewer. / 2. Adolphus Busch: Born in Mayence-on-the-Rhine, he was the youngest of 21 sons. Married Lilly Anheuser and co-founded Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law. / 3. August A. Busch Sr.: He got the Brewery through Prohibition and the Depression by diversifying into ice cream, baker’s yeast, and soda pop. / 4. Adolphus Busch III: President and CEO of Anheuser-Busch until his death of a cerebral hemhorrage in 1946. / 5. August A. Busch Jr.: Better known as Gussie or The King, he took his big brother’s place and by 1957 had built A-B into the world's largest brewery. Drafted the Clydesdales into service, bought the St. Louis Cardinals, trained his own chimps and elephants at his Grant’s Farm estate. / 6. August Busch III: He was also known as Augie, Augie-Doggie, The Third, and Three Sticks. Dropped out of college, took to the brewery business, wrestled control from his father, incoherent with grief after the death of his youngest daughter. Donated Mike IV, a live Bengal tiger, to be mascot of Louisiana State University. / 7. August Busch IV: Also known as The Fourth, he was the last Busch to reign, with a life that could script 10 soap operas. Launched the famous Budweiser frogs campaign. Fought InBev’s hostile takeover until 2008, when 156 years of Busch rule ended. / 8. William Kurt Busch: He’s better known as Billy. The king of Kräftig, he just won’t let his family’s heritage die. Loved growing up on Grant’s Farm; sowed his wild oats early, then married and had seven kids; breeds polo ponies and taught his son Gussie to play the game; tests his award-winning lager against German purity standards.
The claraS and Their dynaSTieS / 13. Clara Busch von Gontard: Married Baron Paul von Gontard, president of Mercedes-Benz and a secret witness in a German Supreme Court case; the media nicknamed him “The Man in the Mask.” A later von Gontard, Adalbert Sr.—who dressed his chimps in dinner jackets and seated them at the dinner table with mugs of Budweiser—married Beatrice Busch, inter-twining the families a second time. Peter von Gontard is the city attorney of Huntleigh, the wealthiest city in the nation. This July, four von Gontard brothers—Alex, Andrew, Adie, and Peter—opened The Eberhard, a Dallas restaurant and bar, in their great-great-grandfather’s honor. / 14. Clara Busch Orthwein: Married Percy Orthwein, founder of D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles ad agency. Their son James, who took over D’Arcy, bought the New England Patriots. Orthweins tend to live in Huntleigh, play polo, and engage in philanthropy.
The rebelS / 9. Sam Edison Woods: A Texan engineer who made regular trips to Berlin to keep President Franklin D. Roosevelt informed about German “technology.” It’s said Woods also collected damning intelligence on Bernard Berghaus, who was married to Lily von Gon-tard…then married Lily’s aunt, Wilhelmina “Minnie” Busch. / 10. Drummond Busch Hadley: A poet-cowboy who rescued William Randolph Hearst’s famous Gray Ranch and restored it as a working cattle ranch. / 11. Carlota “Lotsie” Hermann Holton: A member of the Explorers Club, she’s climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, hiked the Inca Trail, and waded through elephant dung. / 12. Laura X: Off the charts, in more ways than one. Granddaughter of Percy Orthwein’s brother William, she was a debutante who was more interested in civil rights and feminism than frills. Ditched her surname and moved to Berkeley, where she led a campaign to make marital rape illegal.
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