Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Alexander BILLSTEIN

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Daily Northwestern August 23, 1895 p.1

Sudden Death at Neenah

Alexander Billstein, an old and well-known resident gone

Neenah, Wis., Aug. 23-- At 12:30 o'clcok last night, at his home on Doty
avenue, occurred the death of Alexander Billstein, one of Neenah's oldest
and best known business men.  Mr. Billstein had been in poor health, though
not seriously ill, for a week, and his death was necessarily a great shock
to his friends.  Only yesterday he attended to a number of business duties
and was about the city as usual.  Last evening he entertained a party of
gentlemen friends at cards until a late hour.  Mr. Billstein had prepared
to leave this morning for Mount Clemens, Mich., where he was to join his
wife, who was also in delicate health and had been taking the water cure at
that place.  His death leaves a wife and five children, four daughters,
Mrs. Kataz, of Yankton, S.D., Mrs. George Hirsch, of Austin, Minn., Mrs.
Herman Baum, of Chicago, and Mrs. Leo Polachech, of Chicago.  Moses
Billstein, the only son of the deceased, is a resident of this city.
Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been completed, on account of the
fact that the family is so scattered.