George Eustis Jr. (September 28, 1828 – March 15, 1872) was an American lawyer and politician.
Early life
Eustis was born in New Orleans on September 28, 1828. He was the namesake and eldest son of George Eustis Sr. and Clarisse Duralde Eustis (née Allain). His father was a lawyer who served as a Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. Among his siblings was brother James Biddle Eustis, a U.S. Senator and Ambassador to France.[1] In 1850, the last census of his life, his father owned 10 slaves in New Orleans, two of whom were classified as mulatto.[2]
His paternal grandparents were Jacob Eustis and Elizabeth Saunders (née Gray) Eustis and his maternal grandparents were Valérien Allain and Céleste (née Duralde) Allain.[3] His mother was the niece of Julie Duralde Clay, a sister-in-law of statesman Henry Clay through her marriage to Clay's brother John Clay.[4]
In April 1859, Eustis was married to Louise Morris Corcoran (1838–1867), the only surviving daughter of Louise (née Morris) Corcoran and William Wilson Corcoran, a banker and philanthropist who co-founded the Riggs Bank.[6] Her grandfathers were mayor Thomas Corcoran and naval officer Charles Morris.[7] Together, they were the parents of two sons and a daughter:
George Peabody Eustis[a] (1864–1936),[11] who married his first cousin Marie Eustis (1866–1956), only daughter of James B. Eustis, in 1887. They divorced in 1901,[12] and she married pianist Josef Hofmann in 1905,[13] and he remarried to Rosamund K. Street, daughter of William Street, in 1908.[14][15]
He died in of tuberculosis in Cannes, France, on March 15, 1872.[5] His body was brought to the United States and interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[1]
Descendants
Through his son George,[14] he was a grandfather of George Morris Eustis (1899–1961) and Lucinda Eustis Corcoran (born Lucinda Morgan Corcoran Eustis).[18]
↑1850 U.S. Federal Census slave schedule for New Orleans Municipality 3 ward 1, p. 15 of 19
↑Arthur, Stanley Clisby; Huchet de Kernion, George Campbell (June 1, 2009). Old Families of Louisiana. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN9780806346885. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
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