Louis Peine

Wharton Spectator
Friday,February 4, 1916

DEATH OF ONE OF
OLDEST RESIDENTS

Louis Peine Died Tuesday at
His Home in This City,
Aged 78 Years.

Mr. Louis Peine, senior mem-
ber of the firm of L. Peine &
Son, and one of Wharton's most
successful and oldest business
men, passed away at his home
on Milam street at 6 o'clock
Tuesday evening, after an ill-
ness of only a few weeks. He
had been confined to his home
since returning from a visit to
his son, W. Peine of Houston,
just after the holidays, but un-
til Monday his condition was
not considered alarming. Rath-
er, friends were informed up
to that time that while quite
weak as a result of the several
weeks' illness, he was sitting up
a part of the time and on the
road to recovery. But on Mon-
day he suddenly took a turn for
the worse, rapidly sinking until
the end.

Relatives were notified as soon
as he became worse, and at the
end there were at his bedside,
besides his aged wife, W. Peine
of Houston; Mrs. Louis Haus-
mann of New Orleans; Mrs Jos-
eph Hymans of Del Rio; Henry
Labe of New Orleans, Mr. and
Mrs. Dave Hynes and Ben
Peine. Mrs. Robert Jarett, of
Corsicana, a daughter, could
not come owing to the illness of a
child, and Mrs. Ben Peine was
visiting in Kentucky, and owing
to train connections, could not
reach here either.

The body was taken to Hous-
ton for interment int he Jewish
cemetery Thursday afternoon,
qand was accompanied from this
point by escorts both from the
Masonic lodge and the Order of
the Eastern Star. At the de-
pot in Houston, hundreds had
gathered to attend the funeral,
and there was in evidence a
profusion of floral offerings,
which came from friends at
various points in the south.
Services were conducted by
Rabbis Barnstein of Houston
and Kerlin of Wharton.

Mr Peine had lived in Whar-
ton for 31 years, prior to which
time he lived in Houston nearly
10 years and had many friends
here among the older citizens.
He came to Texas, at Indianola,
at the outbreak of the war be-
teen the states. He remained
int hat city until after the
storm of 1875, which swept
away all of his belongings, and
there married Mrs. Nannetta
Late Holstein, January 21, 1838. In
youth he was an apprentice
watchmaker at Hamburg, Ger-
many. He lived in Switzerland,
Paris, and London until he was
aged 22 years, when he reached
New York City.

Mr. Peine was made a Mason
in Europe, and while in this
state was given practaclly ev-
ery office in the order at one
time or another. He was re-
guarded as a man of great edu-
cation and intelligence, and had
thousands of friends in various
parts of Texas. He was master
of the German, Hebrew, French,
Danish, English and Spanish
languages. Among Mr. Peine's
pastimes was the game of chess,
which he was said to have
played with noted experts
whenever they came to Texas.

He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. L. Peine of Wharton; two
sons, B. Peine of Wharton and
W. Peine of Houston; three
daughters, Mrs. Louis Haus-
mann of New Orleans, Mrs.
Robert Jarett of Corsicana and
Mrs. Dave Hynes of Wharton;
stepchildren, Albert Labe of
Berwick, La., Henry Labe of
New Orleans, La. and Mrs.
Joseph Hymans of Del Rio,
Texas; also a brother and two
sisters in Hamburg, and a sis-
ter in New York.

In the passing of this good
man, Wharton sustains a loss
which will be long felt. In bus-
iness circles and in social life,
few events have occurred in
which he failed to take an ac-
tive part; and in the Masonic
work particularly, his has been
a leading part. Possibly no
man was better informed on
history, music and the arts
than he.

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