Elizabeth Terry

When I open a book to find a family tree or a map, I know good things are coming and lucky for us this book starts with a family tree.

Author Elizabeth Terry has written a detailed yet very readable history of the Faust family. I am not at all familiar with St. Louis, but I really enjoyed learning about it through the Fausts. This well-researched book covers the Faust family for three generations, starting with Tony Faust who immigrated to the US in 1853. Tony opened a restaurant and a show more specialty market. His son, Edward, went into business and Tony's grandson became a farmer. The Faust family used the wealth that Tony acquired to become philanthropists, world travelers and patrons of the arts. Elizabeth Terry used a variety of family pictures and newspaper articles to illustrate this book.

Anyone who is interested in history, particularly the Gilded Age or St. Louis, will enjoy this book. show less

Decadent food - not for those on a diet.

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