A City o f FAMILI E S
All the Kings’
Children
Dorothea
Richter
Anheuser
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Eberhard
Anheuser
The Busches and their progeny made some interesting marriages.
Here’s how all those family names intertwined.
by b i rt h
by m a r r i age
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 cofounded 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.
BUSCH
Elisa “Lilly”
Anna
Anheuser Anheuser
Busch
Busch
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Adolphus
Busch
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Charles E.
Edmee
Hugo
Busch
Reisinger Greenough
Reisinger
Nellie Adolphus
Busch
Magnus
Magnus
Loeb
Jacob
Loeb
Adolphus
Busch Jr.
Sam
Edison
Woods
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Dr. Carl Wilhelmina
Edward
Scharrer Borchardt “Minnie”
Busch
Scharrer
Borchardt
Woods
Edward
Busch
Alice
Ziesemann
Busch
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3
August A.
Busch Sr.
Horace
Flanigan
Peter
Busch
Emilee
Busch
Alex
Busch
Clara
Busch
von
Gontard
Carl
Busch
Baron
Paul von
Gontard
Gertrude
“Trudy”
Buholzer
Marie
Christy
Church
Carl Werner
Gronewaldt
Martha
Busch
Anna Edward
Louise Faust
Busch
Faust
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Vivian
Uyeda
Reisinger
Walter
Gloria
Reisinger Chalmers
Reisinger
Aimee Catherine Florence
Magnus “Kitty” McRhea
Flanigan Milliken Lambert
Busch
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Adolphus
Busch III
C.
Drummond
Jones
Clara
Percy
Busch Orthwein
Orthwein
Marie
Busch
Jones
Osa
Pearson
Marion
Bullard
Louis A.
Hager Sr
Romaine
Pierce
Marie Herbert Willis Jacqueline Nancy Adolphus Nancy James
John Peter Sallie
Busch Thornley Busch Morrison Busch
Marie Eleanor Condie Jr Dean
Flanigan M.
Flanigan Wheeler Condie
Jones Orthwein Orthwein
Hadley
Orthwein
Hadley
Alice
“Pummie”
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5
Edna Busch
Gronewaldt August A.
Busch Jr.
Arthur B. Webster
Preece
Tilton
Robert
Hermann
Sr.
Lilly
Christy
Busch
Hermann
Carlota Elizabeth
“Lotsie” Overton
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6
Busch
Busch
August
Webster
Parker
Condie
Sr.
Katherine
Peter
Robert
Willis
Adolphus
Christopher Romaine
Orthwein
Hermann
Dean
Busch
Orthwein Clara Busch Orthwein
Jr.
Hadley
Orthwein
Orthwein
Jr. Stephen
David
Percy J.
James B.
Drummond Jr. Hope
Orthwein
Orthwein
Orthwein
Orthwein
“Drum”
Hadley
II
Busch
Burghardt
Hadley
Richard
Holton
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 Gontard…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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Paul C.
von
Gontard
Conseulo George Bernard
Wilson von Werner Berghaus
Gontard Schieber
Susanne
Lily
Claire Schilling
von
von
Gontard Gontard
Adalbert
“Adie” von
Gontard
Susan
Hornibrook
Adolphus
Ann
Stryker Busch IV
Busch III
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Beatrice Peter Gertrude William Andrew Paul
Paul Clara Marie Adalbert
Adolphus
Mary
Busch Busch “Trudy” “Billy” Busch Theodore Harvey Griesedieck Victor
von Williams von
Busch Busch
von
von Gontard
von
Gontard
Valentine
Gontard
Gontard
Gontard
Jr.
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10
Herbert
Condie
III
Gert von Yvonne
Gontard Sonja
Hal
Garwood
Transou
III
Margot
Condie
Walter
Walter
“Buddy”
Busch
Reisinger Jr
Reisinger II
Edward
Ronald
Bullard
Busch
Reisinger
Reisinger
Leicester Audrey
Busch
Faust
Faust Wallace
Virginia
Lee Wiley
Loris
Katherine
Gatch
Wheeler
Margaret
Snyder
Elizabeth
Overton
Dozier
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1950
1956
196 3
1964
Carlota
“Lotsie”
Hermann
Holton
Susie Kathryn
Busch- “Kate”
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7
Transou Thatcher August
Busch IV
Steven Virginia Alison Katrina Adolphus
Percy
Susie
Parker
Patrick
August Maria Marie Martina Busch V
von
von
von
von
Busch Busch Busch
Gontard
Gontard
Gontard
Gontard
Clark
Phillip
Perry
Peter
Paul
von
von
von
von
Gontard
Gontard
Gontard
Gontard
Spycos
Adalbert
Skouras
von
Jr.
Gontard
Victoria
Marie
III
von
Eugenie von
Gontard
Gontard
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, intertwining 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.
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Photography courtesy of Anheuser-Busch
Elizabeth Walter
Curt
Chalmers Busch Reisinger
Reisinger Reisinger