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 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.… (mer)