Matthew Lillig

This is another photo from Dave Lillig's 1892 album. It is a cabinet card of Matthew George Lillig taken while he was still living in Kansas City. He became an attorney and traveled the west never settling down or getting married. Over the years he lived and worked in California, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, and Nebraska. I have a business card of his from when he lived in Salida, Colorado. He was a member of the Masons Eagle Lodge in Minturn, Colorado, not far from Vail.

While staying at the Miller Hotel, a brothel in Omaha, Nebraska, he took suddenly ill and was sent to St. Joseph's Hospital there. He died a couple of days later on April 8, 1922 of acute gastritis at the age of forty-seven. His funeral was held at the Masonic Temple in Omaha after which he was cremated and his remains and effects were shipped to his brother, Nick, in Portland, Oregon where he was buried.