OBIT: Charles SCHLAGER, 1871, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA
  
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  Sudden Death.
  
    Early yesterday morning Mr. Charles Schlager left his residence on 
  Washington avenue in apparently good health, and turning down Spruce 
  street when near Roberts' livery, within a block of his home, fell 
  suddenly to the pavement and died almost instantly.  The sad 
  intelligence of his decease spread rapidly throughout the city, and 
  shocked our entire community.  Mr. Schlager was an old resident and a 
  prominent citizen, a very successful business man and was generally 
  esteemed by all classes.
    It seems that Mr. Schlager had been complaining of considerable pain 
  for two or three days past, but continued about his business, and 
  though it nothing serious.  Yesterday morning he attended to his usual 
  duties about his premises, and at the breakfast table was particularly 
  cheerful and kind to the different members of his family.  He conversed 
  in German with his youngest child, Charley, a bright boy of six years, 
  and remarked to his wife that his son was progressing nicely in the 
  language.  Upon leaving the house to told them not to expect him to 
  dinner, as he was going to Gouldsboro on business.  Alas! For the 
  proposals of men, in less than five minutes he last prostrate in death.
    Mr. Schlager was born in Willstadt, Baden, in 1822, and came to this 
  country in 1843, settling at Rondout, N. Y.  Subsequently he moved to 
  Honesdale, where for a number of years he was engaged in business as a 
  baker.  He located in Scranton, we believe, in 1855, and immediately 
  commenced the erection, on the corner of Lackawanna and Washington 
  avenues, of one of the first brick buildings in the town.  During his 
  residence here he has accumulated a large estate, and at the time of 
  his death was interested in a steam bakery at Pittston, a chair factory 
  in Susquehanna county, and land operations in Wayne and Luzerne 
  counties.  He was the originator and a large stockholder in the 
  Heidelberg Cooperative Mining Association, and had also other business 
  interests, besides considerable valuable real estate in this city.  Mr. 
  Schlager has always been a hard worker and a close manager, a prudent 
  and saving man.  The death of such an enterprising, active citizen is a 
  loss to the city; to his family it comes so fearfully sudden and 
  unexpected that the blow has additional crushing weight in their 
  bereavement.  His death was caused by disease of the heart, the 
  existence of which, we understand, he was ignorant of, having never 
  experienced any premonition of it during his life.
  
  The Morning Republican, Friday, December 22, 1871