Evening star., 1945-03-08
Christian Heurich, 7O2, Dies
After Short Illness at Home
Veteran Brewer
Returned to Active
Business at go

Christian Heurlch, Washing
toms grand old man of business
and civic work, died last night
at the age of 102 at his home,
1907 New Hampshire avenue
NV.
Death came after a short illness.
A cold that developed into bron-
chitis proved too great a strain for
the venerable brewer.
Mr.. Heurich had been in his usual
health until about 10 days ago, able
to put in short day at his Office
and to carry on the quiet routine he
had followed at home for years.
He celebrated his 102d birthday
last September IL.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Saturday at the home, with
burial in the family mausolem at
Bellevue Farms, Hyattsville, Md.
The service will be conducted by the
Rev. Charles Enders, pastor of Con-
cordia Lutheran Church.
Mr.. Heurich leaves a wife, son,
Christian Heurich, jr., and two
daughters, Mrs. Charles E. Eckles
and Mrs. Charles B. King, both of
Washington.
A great-nephew, Christian Jacob
sen, is president of the National
Metropolitan Bank.
Washington Institution.
Mr.. Heurich worked and lived un-
til he became a Washington insti-
tuition. Because the little bearded
man of more than 100 years was
Istill alive, the brownstone lowered
house in New Hampshire avenue re-
minded Washingtonians of a per-
sonality.
There were lot Of amazing
things about his life. At the age of
80, when repeal gave him the oppor-
tunity, he went back into business
and made renewed success of it.
Only the war stopped his travel
ing-his habit of going abroad which
he began at IA in Germany on foot
with a rucksack slung over his
shoulders. He crossed the Atlantic
70 times.
He was travelling in Germany
when the war broke out. He was
taking his daily nap in hotel in
Bremen when the AFRAID sirens
began screaming in warning of one
|of the first British air raids-a lit
re-dropping raid. Mr.. Heurich
slept right through the noise and
the excitement.
Born in Germany.
He was born on September IL,
1842, at Hama, near Roemhild, in
Saxon -Meiningen, Germany. That
was some years before the birth of
the German Empire, not SO many
years after the death of Napoleon I.
His father was a tavern keeper.
Little Chris quickly realized that
the brewery was the important thing
in the trade the family was engaged
in. His first ambition was to be-
come a prewmaster. And, at II, he
left home, pack on his back, and
walked across the spurs Of the Alps
to work In Vienna.
He came to America when he was
a, AA ulC year DIV AppOuldtOA.
There is story that he outlived q
cholera epidemic in Vienna and
another when his ship was held
In quarantine in Liverpool, by avcA-
ing water and drinking beer only.
Went to Aunt In Baltimore.
Young Christian had an aunt in
Baltimore and went there directly.
He lived for q time in Baltimores
German colony but that was not the
America he had come here to see.
The call of the West had him. He
went out to Kansas when bison still
roamed the plains, when the Indians
occasionally went on the warpath,
when men were quick on the draw
and the West was still Wild.
He came back east, shipped out
as an able seaman, and saw the
ports Of South America. =
The Washington he came to In
1871 was deep in the mire. Except