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Eberhard Anheuser

Elisa “Lilly” Anheuser

Busch

Anna Anheuser

Busch

Dorothea Richter

Anheuser

Edmee Busch

Reisinger

Virginia Lee Wiley

Susie Busch-

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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

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Marie Williams

Paul C. von

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Conseulo Wilson von

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Anna Louise Busch Faust

Parker Condie

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Herbert Condie

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Walter “Buddy”

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Hugo Reisinger

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Alison Marie Busch Clark

Adolphus Busch V

Katrina Martina

Ann Stryker

Kathryn “Kate”

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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

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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

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GontardPhillip

von Gontard

Patrick von

GontardPaul von

Gontard

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GontardPerry von

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GontardPeter von

Gontard

Elizabeth Overton Dozier Adolphus

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Susan Hornibrook

Edward Bullard

Reisinger

Ronald Busch

Reisinger

Walter Busch

Reisinger II

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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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