The following dispatch from Manning, Iowa, was received in
this city yesterday: Manning, March 26, 1899. Emil Uthoff
died last night, March 25, 1899. The funeral will be Monday morning via C. M.
St. P. to Davenport. Interment in the afternoon from the Hans
Nissen establishment at 2 o'clock.
Hugo Behrens
Emil F. Uthoff was in his forty-sixth year, and was well-known in this city as a former manager of the
Davenport Turner Hall.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothea A.E. (Buck) Uthoff,
and three children, Henrietta Uthoff, Adelia (Mrs. William) Ohrt, Alma (Mrs. August) Jans, and William Uthoff.
The deceased was born in Schleswig-Holstein, born January 31, 1850, and came to
Davenport from Rock Island where he managed the Turner Hall over there. He came
to America in his twenty-first year. Between the years 1891-1894 he acted as
manager of the local Turner Hall. For several years previously he conducted a
saloon at the present Gus Becker stand on Second and Brady Streets.
He went from here to Manning in 1894.
The body arrived in this city about noon today and was removed to the Nissen
undertaking parlors whence the funeral was held at 2 o'clock this afternoon
with interment at the Fairmount Cemetery, Davenport, Iowa.
Daily Times, Davenport, Iowa March 27, 1899
Mrs. Uthoff, widow of the late Emil Uthoff with her two children Alma and Willie
returned to Manning, Iowa, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Carnival Camp No. 1, W.O.W., of which the deceased was a member, will erect a
gravestone in the near future, as also pay to his widow the amount of his life insurance.
Daily Times, Davenport, Iowa March 27, 1899