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Ustick, Thomas Watts

printer, publisher, was born Aug. 22, 1801, in Philadelphia, Pa., and was a grandson of the Rev. Thomas Ustick, a noted baptist divine. He learned the printing business in Virginia, and became a successful printer and publisher of Washington, Chicago and St. Louis. In 1828 he was the publisher of the Washington City Chronicle. He was a devout member of the Third Baptist church of St. Louis, Mo., of which church he was deacon. He died Aug. 15, 1866, in St. Louis, Mo., leaving a rich legacy to his children in a name untarnished and an influence which will ever live.