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Mural by Joseph August Faust, Collection of Parramatta Heritage Centre
There is much we don’t know about Joseph August Faust. What we do know is that he was born in New York in 1871, of German heritage and spent his childhood in Pittsburgh. He migrated to Sydney in 1887 and was working as a painter and decorator in 1890. His first marriage to Mary Sparrow was in 1895 and they had a son Joseph Paul. Mary died in 1925 and he subsequently married Beatrice Inch in 1929, followed by Ita Reeves in 1937. He died in 1939 aged 67. 