Obituary
San Antonio Express
Wednesday Morning, December 18, 1929
page 19
Nordhaus -- Eugene S. Nordhaus, husband of Mrs. Katie Nordhaus, died at his home 413 Peach Street, Tuesday night, in his 64th year. Besides his wife, he is survived by three daughters Mrs. E. A. Krohn, Mrs. T. P. Morgan and Mrs. Nell W. Fernandez, and a step-son, R. N. White, all of this city: also two sisters and a brother. Funeral services will be held from Porter Loring's Morituary this (Wednesday) afternoon at 4 o'clock, Dr. Paul B. Kern officiating. Interment will be in City Cemetery No. 6.
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Texas and Texans pages 1645 and 1646
Hon. Eugene S. Nordhaus. Since going into the State Legislature as representative from Bexar, Mr. Nordhaus has become well known all over the state, and has been regarded as one of the most serviceable and capable members of the Thirty-fourth Legislature. Mr. Nordhaus is a veteran member of the printing fraternity of San Antonio, and has had a career of more than ordinary accomplishment in the face of difficulties and hardships that circumscribed his early life.
He was born in San Antonio in 1865, son of Alexander and Hannah (Hyams) Nordhaus. His father, a native of Germany, came to America in 1854 in young manhood and during a brief residence in South Carolina married Miss Hannah Hyams. In 1856 the young couple started for Texas, making the chiefly by water as far as Galveston and from there journeyed by ox wagon to San Antonio. Alexander Nordhaus was a man of education and of splendid talent, a lawyer by profession, and during the Civil war served as lieutenant in a company with the Confederate army. He was serving as justice of the peace at the time of his death in 1871, and his loss was not only a severe one to his immediate family but was widely mourned. Mr. Nordhaus's mother, who is still living, has endured with cheerful spirit the misfortune of blindness for many years, and spends her life peacefully and happily with her children.
On account of his father's early death, Eugene Nordhaus was thrown on his own resources at a very early age. When only seven years of age he began selling papers, shining shoes and performing other minor services fitted for his years and strength. A few years later he entered the employ of the San Antonio Express at wages of one dollar a week. He did such work as was required of a boy in a newspaper office in those days--folding papers, learning to set type, and gradually making himself a typesetter in the Express office, and remained steadily in that office as a compositor for twenty-one years. He was working on the paper when it was taken over about 1880 by the late Frank Grice, who made of medium for his personal fortune. When the linotype machine came into use Mr. Nordhaus quickly adapted himself to the new method of composition and has for years been an expert linotype operator on the San Antonio Light, the evening newspaper of San Antonio.
It was in 1914 that he was honored by his fellow citizens by election as representative in the lower house of the Texas Legislature, representing the Eighthly-fifth District, comprising Bexar County. His service in the Thirty-forth session was noteworthy in many particulars. He was father of the bill providing for the printing of school children books by the state, and he and Representative Burton of Fort Worth were introduced provided for a board of taxation to bring about a more just passage, but Mr. Nordhaus believes he will get it passed in the thirty-fifth session, 1916-17. In the thirty-fourth session he was a member of the Committee on Taxation, Committee on Municipal Corporation, and Committee on Printing. He was made chairman of the committee appointed to ascertain the cost of the proposed repairs to the state capitol. He was always diligent and useful in representing the people, and such was his record that no opposition has arisen to his candidacy for re-election before the July primaries of 1916.
Mr. Nordhaus is affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Knights of the Maccabees and belongs to a number of beneficiary organizations. He married Mrs. Katie (Nayland) White. Their four children are: Eugenia, wife of Edward Krohn; Nellie May, Ione and Richard White.
San Antonio Express
Wednesday Morning, December 18, 1929
page 19
Nordhaus -- Eugene S. Nordhaus, husband of Mrs. Katie Nordhaus, died at his home 413 Peach Street, Tuesday night, in his 64th year. Besides his wife, he is survived by three daughters Mrs. E. A. Krohn, Mrs. T. P. Morgan and Mrs. Nell W. Fernandez, and a step-son, R. N. White, all of this city: also two sisters and a brother. Funeral services will be held from Porter Loring's Morituary this (Wednesday) afternoon at 4 o'clock, Dr. Paul B. Kern officiating. Interment will be in City Cemetery No. 6.
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Texas and Texans pages 1645 and 1646
Hon. Eugene S. Nordhaus. Since going into the State Legislature as representative from Bexar, Mr. Nordhaus has become well known all over the state, and has been regarded as one of the most serviceable and capable members of the Thirty-fourth Legislature. Mr. Nordhaus is a veteran member of the printing fraternity of San Antonio, and has had a career of more than ordinary accomplishment in the face of difficulties and hardships that circumscribed his early life.
He was born in San Antonio in 1865, son of Alexander and Hannah (Hyams) Nordhaus. His father, a native of Germany, came to America in 1854 in young manhood and during a brief residence in South Carolina married Miss Hannah Hyams. In 1856 the young couple started for Texas, making the chiefly by water as far as Galveston and from there journeyed by ox wagon to San Antonio. Alexander Nordhaus was a man of education and of splendid talent, a lawyer by profession, and during the Civil war served as lieutenant in a company with the Confederate army. He was serving as justice of the peace at the time of his death in 1871, and his loss was not only a severe one to his immediate family but was widely mourned. Mr. Nordhaus's mother, who is still living, has endured with cheerful spirit the misfortune of blindness for many years, and spends her life peacefully and happily with her children.
On account of his father's early death, Eugene Nordhaus was thrown on his own resources at a very early age. When only seven years of age he began selling papers, shining shoes and performing other minor services fitted for his years and strength. A few years later he entered the employ of the San Antonio Express at wages of one dollar a week. He did such work as was required of a boy in a newspaper office in those days--folding papers, learning to set type, and gradually making himself a typesetter in the Express office, and remained steadily in that office as a compositor for twenty-one years. He was working on the paper when it was taken over about 1880 by the late Frank Grice, who made of medium for his personal fortune. When the linotype machine came into use Mr. Nordhaus quickly adapted himself to the new method of composition and has for years been an expert linotype operator on the San Antonio Light, the evening newspaper of San Antonio.
It was in 1914 that he was honored by his fellow citizens by election as representative in the lower house of the Texas Legislature, representing the Eighthly-fifth District, comprising Bexar County. His service in the Thirty-forth session was noteworthy in many particulars. He was father of the bill providing for the printing of school children books by the state, and he and Representative Burton of Fort Worth were introduced provided for a board of taxation to bring about a more just passage, but Mr. Nordhaus believes he will get it passed in the thirty-fifth session, 1916-17. In the thirty-fourth session he was a member of the Committee on Taxation, Committee on Municipal Corporation, and Committee on Printing. He was made chairman of the committee appointed to ascertain the cost of the proposed repairs to the state capitol. He was always diligent and useful in representing the people, and such was his record that no opposition has arisen to his candidacy for re-election before the July primaries of 1916.
Mr. Nordhaus is affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Knights of the Maccabees and belongs to a number of beneficiary organizations. He married Mrs. Katie (Nayland) White. Their four children are: Eugenia, wife of Edward Krohn; Nellie May, Ione and Richard White.
Obituary
San Antonio Express
Wednesday Morning, December 18, 1929
page 19
Nordhaus -- Eugene S. Nordhaus, husband of Mrs. Katie Nordhaus, died at his home 413 Peach Street, Tuesday night, in his 64th year. Besides his wife, he is survived by three daughters Mrs. E. A. Krohn, Mrs. T. P. Morgan and Mrs. Nell W. Fernandez, and a step-son, R. N. White, all of this city: also two sisters and a brother. Funeral services will be held from Porter Loring's Morituary this (Wednesday) afternoon at 4 o'clock, Dr. Paul B. Kern officiating. Interment will be in City Cemetery No. 6.
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Texas and Texans pages 1645 and 1646
Hon. Eugene S. Nordhaus. Since going into the State Legislature as representative from Bexar, Mr. Nordhaus has become well known all over the state, and has been regarded as one of the most serviceable and capable members of the Thirty-fourth Legislature. Mr. Nordhaus is a veteran member of the printing fraternity of San Antonio, and has had a career of more than ordinary accomplishment in the face of difficulties and hardships that circumscribed his early life.
He was born in San Antonio in 1865, son of Alexander and Hannah (Hyams) Nordhaus. His father, a native of Germany, came to America in 1854 in young manhood and during a brief residence in South Carolina married Miss Hannah Hyams. In 1856 the young couple started for Texas, making the chiefly by water as far as Galveston and from there journeyed by ox wagon to San Antonio. Alexander Nordhaus was a man of education and of splendid talent, a lawyer by profession, and during the Civil war served as lieutenant in a company with the Confederate army. He was serving as justice of the peace at the time of his death in 1871, and his loss was not only a severe one to his immediate family but was widely mourned. Mr. Nordhaus's mother, who is still living, has endured with cheerful spirit the misfortune of blindness for many years, and spends her life peacefully and happily with her children.
On account of his father's early death, Eugene Nordhaus was thrown on his own resources at a very early age. When only seven years of age he began selling papers, shining shoes and performing other minor services fitted for his years and strength. A few years later he entered the employ of the San Antonio Express at wages of one dollar a week. He did such work as was required of a boy in a newspaper office in those days--folding papers, learning to set type, and gradually making himself a typesetter in the Express office, and remained steadily in that office as a compositor for twenty-one years. He was working on the paper when it was taken over about 1880 by the late Frank Grice, who made of medium for his personal fortune. When the linotype machine came into use Mr. Nordhaus quickly adapted himself to the new method of composition and has for years been an expert linotype operator on the San Antonio Light, the evening newspaper of San Antonio.
It was in 1914 that he was honored by his fellow citizens by election as representative in the lower house of the Texas Legislature, representing the Eighthly-fifth District, comprising Bexar County. His service in the Thirty-forth session was noteworthy in many particulars. He was father of the bill providing for the printing of school children books by the state, and he and Representative Burton of Fort Worth were introduced provided for a board of taxation to bring about a more just passage, but Mr. Nordhaus believes he will get it passed in the thirty-fifth session, 1916-17. In the thirty-fourth session he was a member of the Committee on Taxation, Committee on Municipal Corporation, and Committee on Printing. He was made chairman of the committee appointed to ascertain the cost of the proposed repairs to the state capitol. He was always diligent and useful in representing the people, and such was his record that no opposition has arisen to his candidacy for re-election before the July primaries of 1916.
Mr. Nordhaus is affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Knights of the Maccabees and belongs to a number of beneficiary organizations. He married Mrs. Katie (Nayland) White. Their four children are: Eugenia, wife of Edward Krohn; Nellie May, Ione and Richard White.
San Antonio Express
Wednesday Morning, December 18, 1929
page 19
Nordhaus -- Eugene S. Nordhaus, husband of Mrs. Katie Nordhaus, died at his home 413 Peach Street, Tuesday night, in his 64th year. Besides his wife, he is survived by three daughters Mrs. E. A. Krohn, Mrs. T. P. Morgan and Mrs. Nell W. Fernandez, and a step-son, R. N. White, all of this city: also two sisters and a brother. Funeral services will be held from Porter Loring's Morituary this (Wednesday) afternoon at 4 o'clock, Dr. Paul B. Kern officiating. Interment will be in City Cemetery No. 6.
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Texas and Texans pages 1645 and 1646
Hon. Eugene S. Nordhaus. Since going into the State Legislature as representative from Bexar, Mr. Nordhaus has become well known all over the state, and has been regarded as one of the most serviceable and capable members of the Thirty-fourth Legislature. Mr. Nordhaus is a veteran member of the printing fraternity of San Antonio, and has had a career of more than ordinary accomplishment in the face of difficulties and hardships that circumscribed his early life.
He was born in San Antonio in 1865, son of Alexander and Hannah (Hyams) Nordhaus. His father, a native of Germany, came to America in 1854 in young manhood and during a brief residence in South Carolina married Miss Hannah Hyams. In 1856 the young couple started for Texas, making the chiefly by water as far as Galveston and from there journeyed by ox wagon to San Antonio. Alexander Nordhaus was a man of education and of splendid talent, a lawyer by profession, and during the Civil war served as lieutenant in a company with the Confederate army. He was serving as justice of the peace at the time of his death in 1871, and his loss was not only a severe one to his immediate family but was widely mourned. Mr. Nordhaus's mother, who is still living, has endured with cheerful spirit the misfortune of blindness for many years, and spends her life peacefully and happily with her children.
On account of his father's early death, Eugene Nordhaus was thrown on his own resources at a very early age. When only seven years of age he began selling papers, shining shoes and performing other minor services fitted for his years and strength. A few years later he entered the employ of the San Antonio Express at wages of one dollar a week. He did such work as was required of a boy in a newspaper office in those days--folding papers, learning to set type, and gradually making himself a typesetter in the Express office, and remained steadily in that office as a compositor for twenty-one years. He was working on the paper when it was taken over about 1880 by the late Frank Grice, who made of medium for his personal fortune. When the linotype machine came into use Mr. Nordhaus quickly adapted himself to the new method of composition and has for years been an expert linotype operator on the San Antonio Light, the evening newspaper of San Antonio.
It was in 1914 that he was honored by his fellow citizens by election as representative in the lower house of the Texas Legislature, representing the Eighthly-fifth District, comprising Bexar County. His service in the Thirty-forth session was noteworthy in many particulars. He was father of the bill providing for the printing of school children books by the state, and he and Representative Burton of Fort Worth were introduced provided for a board of taxation to bring about a more just passage, but Mr. Nordhaus believes he will get it passed in the thirty-fifth session, 1916-17. In the thirty-fourth session he was a member of the Committee on Taxation, Committee on Municipal Corporation, and Committee on Printing. He was made chairman of the committee appointed to ascertain the cost of the proposed repairs to the state capitol. He was always diligent and useful in representing the people, and such was his record that no opposition has arisen to his candidacy for re-election before the July primaries of 1916.
Mr. Nordhaus is affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Knights of the Maccabees and belongs to a number of beneficiary organizations. He married Mrs. Katie (Nayland) White. Their four children are: Eugenia, wife of Edward Krohn; Nellie May, Ione and Richard White.
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