Eugene Alexander SITTIG
Obituary

SIX KIN DIE OF PNEUMONIA
Eugene A. Sitting Quickly Follows Five Relatives to Death
DAUGHTER IS BARELY ALIVE
Mrs. Jennie Danks, Seventh Victim, is in Critical Condition

If it be granted to Mrs. Jennie Danks to recover from the critical illness in which she lies in the Nordica flats at Fullerton avenue and North Clark street, in ignorance of what has happened about her, she will awake to find five near relatives dead who were alive and well at the beginning of her illness.

Her father, Eugene A. Sittig, a prominent German business man of the city, the fifth to die in fourteen days, lis in an adjoining room in the flat, he having died yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock of pneumonia.

In six weeks six members of the family ahve died - Mr. Sittig's mother, one of his daughters, a cousin, a brother-in-law, a sister-in-law, and Mr. Sittig himself.

Mrs. Danks, the surviving daughter, knows her grandmother is dead, but not that her father, sister, and other relatives have died of the same disease with which she is struggling.

With six members of the family ill at the same time and with death succeeding death and funeral succeeding funeral, the survivors were not allowed to know that one by one the number of the living was being decreased.

Strange Succession of Deaths
Mrs. Rosalie Sitting, mother of Eugene A. Sittig, died at the age of 83 years in Kalamazoo, Mich. Her death, which came in the fullness of years, was the first, and it, although not unexpected, was followed by a remarkably sad series of deaths which have removed one member after another.

Arthur Sittig, a cousin of Mr. Sittig, died on May 21 at his residence in Englewood of pneumonia. His death was followed by that of J. J. Rummier, a brother-in-alw, and Mrs. Christine Feeger, a sister-in-law of Mr. Sittig.

Mr. Sittig, his daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Sittig Bluthardt, and his daughter, Mrs. Danks, had been brought down by pneumonia while their relatives were ill.

Mrs. Danks and her father were ill in the same apartment in the Nordica; Mrs. Bluthardt in the apartment below them. The latter died on Friday and was buried and it was not possible to inform her father and sister that she was gone.

Publisher of Trade Paper
Mr. Sittig was 60 years old and was senior member of the publishing firm which issued the Brewer and Maltster. He left a widow and a son, William Sittig. He was born in Lauban, Germany, in 1847, and was brought to America by his parents the following year. He was married in Dubuque to Miss Mary Kopp, and came to Chicago in 1856, being associated first with the Volks Zeitung as advertising manager. He believed that a profitable field was open to a German trade paper and afterwards founded the Brewer and Maltster.

He took some interest in politics and was elected to the legislature in 1884...

Mr. Sittig was a mason and a member of the Germania club. The funeral will take place tomorrow and burial will be at Rosehill cemetery.

Chicago Daily Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
June 7, 1907




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