Death Of August Fruhauf

Death of August Fruhauf

August Fruhauf, of Pontiac st., died Saturday evening aged 70 years. The funeral serivces will be held tomorrow, Tuesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock at his late residence. Rev. John W. Bradshaw, of the Congregational church officiating. The interment will take place in Fairview cemetery on the Northside.

Mr. Fruhauf was born in Saxe Gotha, Germany. He removed to America when he was 20 years of age settling at Wayne where for many years he did a large business as a manufacturer of cider and a distiller of peppermint. He also worked at his trade as carpenter. He moved from here to Ypsilanti where he resided a year and then came to Ann Arbor about 15 years ago. Mr. Fruhauf was very enterprising and during his younger years was one of the influential men of Wayne. He has been ailing for some time although not confined to his bed very long. A post mortem showed that he died of a cancer of the stomach. A wife and four children, Alfred, Mrs. Harry Hammond, of Ann Arbor, Mrs. Anna Crosby and Miss Lizzie Fruhauf, of Portland, Oregon, and four grandchildren, Mrs. Gustave Waidlich, Harry Mickley, Irene and Harold Fruhauf survive him.