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W4t <iustint Qtnmptnbium Mrs. Weaver Wrote These Books Also: THE HOUSE THAT A ]AP BUILT HoP RuN AND OTHER PAGEANTS THE BOYDSTUN FAMILY THE MINISTER'S WIFE OUR GUEST THE HOWARD LINEAGE TOWED IN ••• <fustint ~ The Gustine Compendium By GUSTINE COURSON WEAVER (Mrs. Clifford Weaver) POWELL & WHITE CINCINNATI, OHIO Copyright, 1929, MRS. EDWARD S. WELCH Shenandoah, Iowa Printed in United States of America DEDICATION Dedicated to My Parents John Gustine Courson and Sarah Frances Boydstun By their Daughter Gustine Courson Weaver The Wife of Dr. Clifford Selden Weaver ANCESTRY Once I saw mountains angry And ranged in battle-front, Against them stood a little man; Aye, he was no bigger than my finger. I laughed, and spoke to one near me, "Will he prevail?" "Surely," replied this other; "His grandfathers beat them many times." Then did I see much virtue in grandfathers, At least, for this little man Who stood against the mountains. Stephen Crane. FOREWORD The descendants of Augustine Jean and wife, Elizabeth Browne, number into the thousands. They are scattered over the entire world, and in both the male and female lines are represented in many of the professional and other walks of life. In Pennsylvania they are represented in the female line in tl;te Hamilton, Snowden, and Green families. George Wilmot Gustin, portrait and landscape painter, of Pennsyl vania, collected much of the history in all its branches, from the .first emigrant, Augustine Jean, to his· own generation. These notes he compiled were given as a love gift to the writer of this book by his sister, Mrs. Coe Durland. Captain Joseph H. Gustin was a graduate of West Point. As a retired army officer, he also took much interest in col lecting data of our family. His wife was Lillian Morgan, a daughter of E. D. N. Morgan, at one time Secretary of the Wyoming Territory. To complete a list of eminent descendants would be an impossible task. For a long period of years, the author of this volume and I have taken exquisite delight in the accumulation of the data which now is to be put into permanent form as a historic vol ume. From our notes, I glean names of some outstanding men and women who should be mentioned. No doubt, should all who richly deserve a place on these pages be mentioned, we should find a list of many hundreds of illustrious Ameri can men and women. The following names, however, are worthy of transcrip tion: Dr. Lemuel Gustine. Dr. Lemuel Gustine's daughter, Sarah, married Rev. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden, who was the first minister of the Paxton Presbyteria:n Church, 1793-1796. This church was the first church erected in the vicinity VII of what is now Harrisburg, Pa. It was attended by John Harris, for whom Harrisburg is named. It was the Mother Church gf "The Market Square Church," situated in what is now the very heart of the city. It is thus the mother of all the Presbyterian churches of th~ city of Harrisburg. Dr. Snowden's picture hangs in The First_ Presbyterian Church today at this place. Thus Sarah Gustine Snowden was the First Minister's Wife of this historic church. Dr. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden was a, graduate of Princeton College where his ancestor, Rev. Samuel Finley, S. T. D., had servvd as President, 1761-1766. Two of President Finley's sons were original members of the Society of Cincinnati, having been officers in the Con tinental Army. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was a descendant also of President Finley, as well as the famous Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, whose son, Rich ard, was Minister to England at one time. - Four of Dr. Snowden's brothers were also Ministers; an other brother, Charles, married Frances, daughter of General Malcolm, thus becoming connected with the Schuylers, Ham iltons, and Livingston families. Another eminent representative of the family was Hon. Theodore Fritz Randolph, Governor of New Jersey at one time, as well as a Senator from that state. Also, "Fighting Natt," or_ Nathaniel Fritz Randolph of Revolutionary fame who was presented a sword of honor by the Legislature. of New Jersey. Complete data of these illustrious families would also include the allied families of the Herherts, Fairfaxes, Wash ingtons, and Randolphs, as well as May Flower descent through the noted family of the second Governor of Plymouth Colony, Edward Winslow. One of Reverend and Mrs. Snowden's sons was the Hon orable James Ross Snowden, prominent in his day in -Penn sylvania Governmental affairs. He was at one time Speaker of the House of Representatives and Treasurer of Pennsyl- VIII vania, Director of the Philadelphia Mint, and U. S. Minister to Greece. Their other four sons s all became prominent physicians. Mary Parker Gustine Snowden, the daughter of Sarah Gustine and Reverend Nathaniel R. Snowden, became the wife of James Thompson, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. Major General George R. Snowden and A. Louden Snowden, U. S. Minister to Greece and since to Spain, are also among Sarah Gustine's descendants. The picture of Premier Marshall or "MonLeMarchall de France" hangs in The Louvre, in Paris. He was one of the outstanding members of the Gustine Family. The picture of Col. Edward Gustine in regimental uni form hangs in the Washington, D. C. Library-Col: Edward Gustine was an aide-de-camp to General George Washington at one time during the Revolutionary War. There was also Reverend E. H. Snowden, who died at ninety-four years of age. He was a minister at Forty Fort, Penn. Hon. Edward Gustin, Keene, N. H., was in the State Senate in 1819. Rev. C. C. Gustine, Potter, New York. According to the Artists of The 19th Century, written by Clement Hutton, we also :find another illustrious descendant of our family, described, as follows: "Edwin Sheffield Bartholomew, horn in Colchester, Conn., July 8, 1822, died in Naples, Italy, May 2, 1858. He was buried at the latter place. He was the eldest of seven children of Abial Lord Bartholomew and Sarah-a daughter of Walter and Anna Grant Gustin. He was in The Life School of The National Academy of Ne~.,. York for a year, then went to Italy, settling in Rome, where, with an exceptional visit to America, hie professional life was spent. Among his works are "Blind Homer Led By His Dog," "Eve," "Sappho," "Campagna," "Shepherd Boy," "Genius .of Painting,'' "Youth," "Old Age," "Evening Star," "Eve Repentant,'' "Washing ton,'' and "Flora." A large collection of his figures and busts are to be found in the Wadsworth Gallery in Hartford, Conn., of which institution he was Curator before taking up his European residency." (See Chap ter 9 of this book, under "Thomas."). IX Mention should also he made of Mrs. Sarah Dewick, who left us her valuable lineage from John S. Gustin and wife Sarah McComb. The Rev. Alpheus Gustin of Virginia was the progenitor of an illustrious line. Among his numerous descendants might be mentioned Virginia Huelings Smith who is on the stage as this book is being compiled, in Shakespearian plays with Mrs. Fiske and Otis Skinner. Dr. Joel Gustine was of Revolutionary fame. He was at the Battle of Bunker Hill, among his other activities during the period of the war. He subsequently lived in Winchester, Virginia. He married a first cousin of General George Wash ington, Ann Taylor Green, who was of the illustrious Green family of Culpepper, Va. Dr. Gustine settled in Georgetown ( now- Washington, D. C.) where he was one of the original incorporators of The Medical Society of Washington, D. C. Full history of this man may he found in the text of the book. There were also at least fifty patriots of our family who served in various capacities in the Revolutionary War. Paul Morgan Gustin, the son of Captain Joseph H. Gus tin and wife, Lillian Morgan, was one of the 150 leading American artists chosen to be members of the Painters and Sculptors Association which controls the Grand Central Gal leries in New York, where his work is to be found on exhibi tion. In 1925 some of his pictures were displayed in The Salon in Paris. His paintings of the great Northwest of the U.S. A. are well known throughout America, his mural paint ings being considered of great value by Washingtonians among whom he spent much of his life. · The author of this book is, in a unique way, serving those of her generation, and I believe the readers of these pages would be glad to know of her contribution among the other descendants herein tabulated. Gustine Courson Weaver is the wife of Dr. Clifford Sel den Weaver. For years, they were missionaries to Japan. She is mentioned, at some length, in "The First Families of America," a compendium of American Genealogy, being de- X scended, through her father, John Gustine Courson, from the Huguenot, ancestor, Peter Courson, who settled in New Am sterdam in 1611, and, through her mother (Sarah Frances Boydstun) a member of The Society of Mayflower Descend ents. She has been for some years a writer of children's stor ies and a story teller of some note. She told stories at the country home of Mrs. Helen Gould Sheperd, Lyndhurst-on Hudson, at one time. For a number of years during her sum mer vacations she was Supervisor of Children's Entertain ment at Battle Creek Michigan Sanitarium. She recently has been President of The Council of Mini ster's Wives of The Disciples of Christ ( 5000 women affiliated) and was for two years editor of a weekly page in a religious magazine for this group of outstanding women.