1850 U. S. census: Ward 7, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA.
1860 U. S. census: Ward 10, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA. Occupation: Clerk.
1870 U. S. census: Tell City, Troy Township, Perry County, Indiana, USA. Occupation: Clerk in Lum Lacey.
1880 U. S. census: Tell City, Troy Township, Perry County, Indiana, USA. Occupation: Cashier in Bank.
1900 U. S. census: Tell City, Troy Township, Perry County, Indiana, USA. Occupation: Cashier in Bank.

DEATH INFORMATION:

Burial site: Section 11.

Perry County, Indiana Will Book D, page 422, Gustave Huthsteiner, Tell City: wife Louisa. Recorded February 6, 1902.

Obituary from the Tell City Anzieger (Tell City, Troy Township, Perry County, Indiana, USA) on Saturday, February 8, 1902, page 3, column 2, item 1:

Our town was put into deep sorrow last Saturday afternoon when the news arrived from Evansville that Gustav Huthsteiner of here had died in a sanitarium there. The deceased was born 17 April 1844 in Prussia, Germany and came to America in 1848 with his parents. These settled in Cincinnati, where the departed received his schooling and became a cigar maker. After he had served three months in Company K of the 5th Ohio Calvary Regiment in the Civil War, he came to Tell City in 1864 and worked for a while in the apothecary of F. Mengis at that time on the former market square, and experienced, as all settlers, many a difficult hour. Still he worked untiringly and unflaggingly and certainly not in vain, then he worked himself up more and more and could look back on his past with pride. He was in the most true sense of the words a self-made man. From nothing he made himself through hard work and perseverance into a wealthy man. In 1864 he married Miss Paulina Weber, who preceded him in death in 1883, and left him with five sons, Eugene G. of here, Edward of Evansville, Robert and Fred of Schenectady, N. Y. and Walter of here and a daughter, Mrs. Chas. Herrmann, likewise of here. In 1868 and 1869 he worked as a teacher in the local free schools and later became sales agent for the Chair Makers Union. In 1872 he was elected Treasurer of Perry County, and ran this office to such satisfaction that he was reelected in 1874. After expiration of his term in office, he along with a few other local men founded the Tell City Bank, whose cashier he became. Through his circumspect leadership the bank won a widely known and unshakable reputation and today is considered as one of the most secure banking businesses in the country. While he held this office, he was elected to the State Legislature as a representative of this county and also served this office with distinction. In 1885 he married again Miss Louisa Ludwig. This marriage was blessed with four sons Hans, Gustave, George and Louis and a daughter Helen, who now with their mother and the children from his first marriage grieve the death of the husband and father. He also leaves a brother and three sisters who live in Cincinnati. When Mayor Ludwig died in December 1889, he was elected his successor and looked after this office as all the others in a circumspect manner and for the best of the city. He also belonged to the school board in earlier years, and contributed not a little to the uplifting of our schools. For years he devoted himself only to his office at the bank and to insurance. Through his untiring zeal he lifted the bank up more and more, and it was transformed about a year ago into a national bank and he was elected again as cashier, which position he held until his death. In him Tell City loses one of its best supports. At every undertaking he was found at the head. He worked day and night to secure its success. Nothing seemed too much for him, nothing too difficult, if it was matter of stepping in for it, and nothing brought him more joy than the increase in our industry and the flourishing of our city. Where it was a matter of breaking a lance, he was always found in the front rank, whether it was here or far, it was the same to him, and his services will be severely missed for a long time.

Years ago he began to get sick, and for this reason and to recover from over-exertion, he and his wife went to Germany and Switzerland in 1895. Seemingly healed he returned and took up his work again. Still the treacherous affliction returned again and he went to Switzerland again last summer, but soon returned again and unfortunately without having found much relief. He devoted himself again to his earlier work, although not so steadily as otherwise, and the previous Tuesday went to the sanitarium in Evansville, where he, as reported above, died suddenly a few days later, after he had brought his age to 57 years, 9 months and 27 days. His burial took place on Tuesday afternoon in the city cemetery under the auspices of the local Freemason Lodge and the Knights of Pythias. In the home the Men's chorus, whose long-time member he was, performed an impressive song. In spite of the unfavorable weather very many grief bearers from near and far were there to pay him the final honor. At the grave Pastor Simon devoted an honorable and well deserved eulogy to him. May he rest in peace and may the earth be easy on him.

OTHER INFORMATION:

32nd Mason.

PERRY COUNTY A HISTORY, by Thomas Hames De La Hunt, The W. K. Stewart Company, Indianapolis, 1916, pages 200 to 201:

Another whose introduction to Tell City was also in the school room, but whose distinction was attained in the realm of finance, was Gustave Huthsteiner, who taught in the new brick shortly after Jacob Bollinger.

He was born April 17, 1844, in Prussia, the eldest child of Edward and Caroline (Aschenbach) Huthsteiner, who came with so many other Germans in 1848 to America, locating in Cincinnati. Here the younger children were born and all received an excellent education through the liberality of their father, a successful merchant of the Queen City. After teaching there for two years, Gustave Huthsteiner came at the age of twenty to Tell City, first clerking in a drug store for a short time before again becoming a teacher.

This experience, added to three months of military service in Company K, Fifth Ohio Calvary, taught him to read human nature well and developed those traits of logical self-control which made him in maturer years Tell City's leading financier and a strong figure in Perry County politics, serving two consecutive terms as County Treasurer and being elected in 1878 as Representative to the Legislature. Twice married - first to Pauline, daughter of John and Pauline (Stadlin) Weber, who died December 25, 1883; and some years later to Louise Ludwig, also of Tell City - he left at his death, February 1, 1902, a considerable family, of whom some still live in their native town and devote themselves to her well-being, as a privilege no less than an hereditary obligation to the name Huthsteiner.