Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Sternberg, Mathias G. 1855 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

MATHIAS G. STERNBERG.

    Mathias G. Sternberg, proprietor of the Block Avenue Hotel at Indiana
Harbor, was born at College Point, New York, April 6, 1855, and in both the
paternal and maternal lines he comes of German ancestry. His paternal
grandfather resided in Holstein, Germany, and there he spent his entire life,
nor did the maternal grandfather ever leave that country. The parents of our
subject were George and Wilhelmina Sternberg, also natives of the fatherland.
The former became a school teacher and crossed the Atlantic to America some time
in the '50s, settling in New York. He proved a loyal son of his adopted country
and at the time of the Civil war he espoused the cause of the Union, enlisting
under Captain Roma, with whose command he went to the front. He was killed at
the battle of Fredericksburg, and was long survived by his wife, who died in
1886 at the age of fifty-six years. Both were members of the Lutheran church. In
their family were fourteen children, six sons and eight daughters, but only two
of the number are now living, the sister of our subject being Dora, the wife of
Nicholas Schwartz.. of College Point, Long Island, New York.

    Mathias G. Sternberg resided on Long Island in his early boyhood days and
attended the public schools there. He afterward went to Delaware, Sullivan
county, New York, where he worked as a farm hand for two years, and on the
expiration of that period he removed to Waterbury, Connecticut, where he was
employed by the Plume & Atwood Company, manufacturers of various kinds of brass
goods. There he continued until the spring of 1876, when he went to Philadelphia
and was employed by the Centennial Exposition Company in the machinery hall. In
the following August he came west and took passage on board the steamer Tidal
Wave of the Diamond Joe line, whereby he proceeded from Fulton, Illinois, to
Stillwater, Minnesota, accompanied by his brother, Casper Sternberg. In the fall
of 1876 he made his way to Chicago and secured employment with the Holmes &
Pyatt Company, manufacturers of printing presses. He continued in that service
until 1878, when he accepted the position of clerk for G. E. Smith in the
Metropolitan Hotel on Wells street, acting in that capacity until 1880. He then
went to the town of Harvey and began working for the Hopkins Manufacturing
Company, manufacturers of mowing machines, and during two years was associated
with that enterprise. The company then erected a hotel called the Hopkins House
and Mr. Sternberg assumed its management. Later, however, he again entered the
employ of the Holmes-Pyatt Company, but after a short time he made his way to
Montana, locating on a ranch twenty-two miles from Livingston. There he lived
for a time and subsequently returned to Chicago, where he entered the employ of
the William Deering Harvester Company. In 1887 he furnished a hotel for G. E.
Smith called LeGrand, and he later became proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel,
which he conducted until 1893, when he entered into business relations with the
Piano Agricultural Works at West Pullman, being expert road man for that house.
In the fall of 1903 he came to Indiana Harbor and has since been engaged in the
hotel business here, being now proprietor of the Block Avenue Hotel.

    On the 17th of August, 1883, Mr. Sternberg was united in marriage to Miss
Rose Shiller. Five children were born of this union, four daughters and a son:
Florilla and Orilla, twins; Mathias G.; Doris; and Rosa, who died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Sternberg are members of the Congregational church, and he belongs
to the Knights of Pythias fraternity. Politically he is a Democrat, but has had
neither time nor inclination to seek public office, preferring to give his
attention to his business affairs, in which he has met with very good success.
All that he possesses has been acquired through his own labors and industry, and
he has steadily worked his way upward so that he deserves much credit for what
he has accomplished.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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