Julius Rundorff 1842-1896

RUNDORFF, NEIS, GLITSCH

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Date: 11/19/2014 at 22:34:16

THE BURLINGTON HAWKEYE
BURLINGTON, IOWA
TUESDAY MORNING,
MARCH 17, 1896-PG. 8

SUDDENLY STRICKEN
JULIUS RUNDORFF DIED SUNDAY
MORNING OF HEART FAILURE

Returning From an Evening Company When the Seizure Came on--
Was Taken Into a Private Home Where He Died.

Saturday night Mr. Julius Rundorff attended an evening's entertainment at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Feldman, on Garnet street. He was in normal health, eat heartily and seemed to enjoy himself. About one o'clock Sunday morning he start home in company with Mr. and Mrs. Gus Feldman. At the corner of Eighth and North streets he felt a sharp pain in the region of the heart and was obliged to sit down. Growing worse instead of better he was led into the house of Mr. J. H Dustman, where he expired in a few minutes from rupture of the heart.
He was a man held in high esteem for probity and honor. In his domestic and in his business relations he was exemplary.
Julius Rundorff was born September 23, 1842, in Peitz, Provinz Brandenburg, Germany. He came to Burlington with his parents, brothers and sister in October 1857, when he was fifteen years of age. In the year of 1859 his father, August Rundorff, bought out the grocery store of August Poehler, on North Sixth street. Julius and his brother Emil clerked in their father's grocery. Some time after the death of their father Julius and his brother Theodore formed a partnership and conducted the grocery on the corner of sixth and High Streets until Theodore sold out his interest to his brother Julius, who conducted the grocery himself until his death early the morning of March 15, 1896.
He was married to Miss Magdalena Neis, April 22, 1874. She died in April 1877. By their marriage they had their son Arthur who survives his father and one infant daughter, who died. He was married to Miss Catharina Glitsch January 19, 1882, and she survives him with their daughter, Carrie, thirteen years old, and their sons, Julius, ten years, Albert, five years and Walter one year. His sister Agnes (Mrs. D. B. Bicklen) died nine years ago very suddenly. His three brother, August. Emil and Theodore Rundorff, survive him. He was fifty-three years, five months and twenty days old and a member of the Retail Grocers' Protective association. Funeral notice later.
In the Burlington Daily Gazette--Burlington, Iowa-Monday Evening March 16, 1896-pg. 4. Further information was that the funeral was held on Wednesday at 2 o'clock.