to France, and then settled in New York City. Personal life Eustis was married to Ellen Buckner (1836–1895), a daughter of Henry Sullivan Buckner, a cotton broker who built a mansion at 1410 Jackson Avenue in New Orleans in 1856, and Catharine (née Allan) Buckner. Ellen was an aunt to Mortimer N. Buckner, president and chairman of the New York Trust Company. Together, James and Ellen were the parents of: William A. Eustis (1860–1863), who died young. Marie Clarice Eustis (1866–1956), who married George Peabody Eustis Corcoran (1864–1936) in 1887. They divorced and she married pianist Josef Hofmann in 1905. James Biddle Eustis Jr. (1872–1915), who married Nina Floyd Crosby (1881–1966) Celestine Eustis (1877–1947), who married Charles Bohlen (1866–1936) in 1902. Eustis died in Newport, Rhode Island on September 9, 1899. He was interred at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. Descendants Through his daughter Celestine, he was posthumously a grandfather of diplomat Charles Bohlen (1904–1974), who served as the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines and France. References Bibliography Retrieved on February 13, 2008 External links 1834 births 1884 deaths Confederate States Army officers Harvard Law School alumni Louisiana lawyers Democratic Party Louisiana state senators Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives Ambassadors of the United States to France Burials at Cave Hill Cemetery Tulane University faculty Tulane University Law School faculty Democratic Party United States senators from Louisiana 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American lawyers Eustis family