Died September 11, 1935 from a stroke of apoplexy during the summer, suffered three months ago, caused the death at 8:05 o'clock pm, Frank Siegel Botefuhr, 73, retired Pittsburg musician and business man. The death occurred at the home of his son, Carl H. Botefuhr, 911 South Olive. Mr. Botefuhr had been seriously ill since suffering the stroke. Mr. Botefuhr was one of the early day musicians in Pittsburg, coming here in 1885 from Fort Smith, AR. He was born in Bunker Hill, IL, March 4, 1862, and was graduated from the University of Arkansas. He operated a music store in Fort Smith prior to coming to Pittsburg.
Several hundred relatives and friends attended the funeral services held at the United Presbyterian church. Rev. J. H. Hutchman, pastor, in his sermon briefly sketched Mr. Botefuhr's life and stated that the deceased was one of the first to bring musical culture to Pittsburg, in those days a mining camp. The Pittsburg municipal band, directed by J. J. Richards, play "Nearer My God to Thee," as relatives and close friends entered the church. Other music at the church included a vocal solo, ‘Face to Face,' sung by Mrs. Charles R. DuBois; a duet ‘Lead Kindly Light,' sung by Mrs. Clyde Hartford and Mrs. DuBois. Robert Gibson played a violin solo ‘Ave Maria' (Bach Gounod) from the entrance of Mt. Olive cemetery to the grave the band preceded the funeral procession, playing a dirge. The body was lowered into the grave to the strains of ‘Abide With Me,' Pallbearers were E. C. Webber, Dr. Walter McCray, Joe Schlanger, James Halliday, Homer Hickman and Bernard Harringan.
Born into a family with a long musical history on March 4, 1862 in Bunker Hill, Macoupin County, IL to Wolf Detlaf Charles Botefuhr and Eliza Jane James. His father had been born in Holstein, Germany and came to America as a child with his parents, Friedrich Andreas "Andrew" Botefuhr and Christiana Dorothea Schlunz. Frank's father's musical resume included being the first music teacher at the University of Arkansas between 1871-1881, member of the first Board of Trustees at the University of Mississippi and an orchestral composer. Frank graduated from the University of Arkansas with a music degree and opened his first music store in Fort Smith not long after graduation. He came to Pittsburg in 1884 and opened his first music store in Pittsburg on North Broadway, which later was moved to Sixth and Locust to a larger building. It moved again to a store on North Broadway between Sixth and Seventh streets with its final location being at 1318 South Broadway. He supplemented his income by working at the Van Winkle Lumber Yard for about a year. In 1886 he married Amelia Kalthoff in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the only child of Herman and Louisa Kalthoff and was born in Cincinnati in 1865. He and his wife returned to Pittsburg where he reopened his music store. In 1888 he became the conductor of the orchestra at the newly opened Opera House, which was located above the National Bank building at Fourth and Broadway. He remained in that position until the 1904 where he became the conductor of the orchestra at the new La Belle Theatre, opened by W. W. Bell in 1904 on the northeast corner of Fourth and Locust. His orchestras accompanied the theatre greats of the time including Eva Tanguay, Otis Skinner, Joseph Jefferson and Junius Brutus Booth, John Wilkes Booth's older brother, when they visited Pittsburg. After the La Belle Theatre burned on November 24, 1915. In the late teens and early 1920's, the Botefuhr Music Store became the largest music supply house outside of Kansas City, publishing original works by himself, his son Carl, Clarence Price and others under the imprint of Frank S. Botefuhr Publishing Co. He also began building pianos with names like the Frank S. Botefuhr Special and the Love Nest, a piano that would fit in the smaller homes. He also was very active in civic organizations, especially those that involved music. Mr. Botefuhr donated the instruments to the Pittsburg High School for the first high school band and lent instruments to the college for use in their band and orchestra. H once again became conductor of a theatre orchestra when the Colonial Theatre was opened on March 17, 1920. He played there for a few years until the need for an orchestra was eliminated due to ‘talkies' becoming popular. Frank and his wife, Amelia had one child, Carl Harry. Mr. Botefuhr retired from the music store in about 1925 and turned the operations over to his son. Amelia (Kalthoff) Botefuhr died February 29, 1932 in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Two sisters survive in addition to the son, Mrs. Alice Spaulding of New York City, and Mrs. Geraldine Cabell of Houston, TX. Mrs. Spaulding and son, Jack. Mrs. Cabell and daughter, Mrs. W. K. Donoghue of Vinita, OK. A nephew, Henry D. Schulte of Miami, FL.
Several hundred relatives and friends attended the funeral services held at the United Presbyterian church. Rev. J. H. Hutchman, pastor, in his sermon briefly sketched Mr. Botefuhr's life and stated that the deceased was one of the first to bring musical culture to Pittsburg, in those days a mining camp. The Pittsburg municipal band, directed by J. J. Richards, play "Nearer My God to Thee," as relatives and close friends entered the church. Other music at the church included a vocal solo, ‘Face to Face,' sung by Mrs. Charles R. DuBois; a duet ‘Lead Kindly Light,' sung by Mrs. Clyde Hartford and Mrs. DuBois. Robert Gibson played a violin solo ‘Ave Maria' (Bach Gounod) from the entrance of Mt. Olive cemetery to the grave the band preceded the funeral procession, playing a dirge. The body was lowered into the grave to the strains of ‘Abide With Me,' Pallbearers were E. C. Webber, Dr. Walter McCray, Joe Schlanger, James Halliday, Homer Hickman and Bernard Harringan.
Born into a family with a long musical history on March 4, 1862 in Bunker Hill, Macoupin County, IL to Wolf Detlaf Charles Botefuhr and Eliza Jane James. His father had been born in Holstein, Germany and came to America as a child with his parents, Friedrich Andreas "Andrew" Botefuhr and Christiana Dorothea Schlunz. Frank's father's musical resume included being the first music teacher at the University of Arkansas between 1871-1881, member of the first Board of Trustees at the University of Mississippi and an orchestral composer. Frank graduated from the University of Arkansas with a music degree and opened his first music store in Fort Smith not long after graduation. He came to Pittsburg in 1884 and opened his first music store in Pittsburg on North Broadway, which later was moved to Sixth and Locust to a larger building. It moved again to a store on North Broadway between Sixth and Seventh streets with its final location being at 1318 South Broadway. He supplemented his income by working at the Van Winkle Lumber Yard for about a year. In 1886 he married Amelia Kalthoff in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the only child of Herman and Louisa Kalthoff and was born in Cincinnati in 1865. He and his wife returned to Pittsburg where he reopened his music store. In 1888 he became the conductor of the orchestra at the newly opened Opera House, which was located above the National Bank building at Fourth and Broadway. He remained in that position until the 1904 where he became the conductor of the orchestra at the new La Belle Theatre, opened by W. W. Bell in 1904 on the northeast corner of Fourth and Locust. His orchestras accompanied the theatre greats of the time including Eva Tanguay, Otis Skinner, Joseph Jefferson and Junius Brutus Booth, John Wilkes Booth's older brother, when they visited Pittsburg. After the La Belle Theatre burned on November 24, 1915. In the late teens and early 1920's, the Botefuhr Music Store became the largest music supply house outside of Kansas City, publishing original works by himself, his son Carl, Clarence Price and others under the imprint of Frank S. Botefuhr Publishing Co. He also began building pianos with names like the Frank S. Botefuhr Special and the Love Nest, a piano that would fit in the smaller homes. He also was very active in civic organizations, especially those that involved music. Mr. Botefuhr donated the instruments to the Pittsburg High School for the first high school band and lent instruments to the college for use in their band and orchestra. H once again became conductor of a theatre orchestra when the Colonial Theatre was opened on March 17, 1920. He played there for a few years until the need for an orchestra was eliminated due to ‘talkies' becoming popular. Frank and his wife, Amelia had one child, Carl Harry. Mr. Botefuhr retired from the music store in about 1925 and turned the operations over to his son. Amelia (Kalthoff) Botefuhr died February 29, 1932 in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Two sisters survive in addition to the son, Mrs. Alice Spaulding of New York City, and Mrs. Geraldine Cabell of Houston, TX. Mrs. Spaulding and son, Jack. Mrs. Cabell and daughter, Mrs. W. K. Donoghue of Vinita, OK. A nephew, Henry D. Schulte of Miami, FL.
Died September 11, 1935 from a stroke of apoplexy during the summer, suffered three months ago, caused the death at 8:05 o'clock pm, Frank Siegel Botefuhr, 73, retired Pittsburg musician and business man. The death occurred at the home of his son, Carl H. Botefuhr, 911 South Olive. Mr. Botefuhr had been seriously ill since suffering the stroke. Mr. Botefuhr was one of the early day musicians in Pittsburg, coming here in 1885 from Fort Smith, AR. He was born in Bunker Hill, IL, March 4, 1862, and was graduated from the University of Arkansas. He operated a music store in Fort Smith prior to coming to Pittsburg.
Several hundred relatives and friends attended the funeral services held at the United Presbyterian church. Rev. J. H. Hutchman, pastor, in his sermon briefly sketched Mr. Botefuhr's life and stated that the deceased was one of the first to bring musical culture to Pittsburg, in those days a mining camp. The Pittsburg municipal band, directed by J. J. Richards, play "Nearer My God to Thee," as relatives and close friends entered the church. Other music at the church included a vocal solo, ‘Face to Face,' sung by Mrs. Charles R. DuBois; a duet ‘Lead Kindly Light,' sung by Mrs. Clyde Hartford and Mrs. DuBois. Robert Gibson played a violin solo ‘Ave Maria' (Bach Gounod) from the entrance of Mt. Olive cemetery to the grave the band preceded the funeral procession, playing a dirge. The body was lowered into the grave to the strains of ‘Abide With Me,' Pallbearers were E. C. Webber, Dr. Walter McCray, Joe Schlanger, James Halliday, Homer Hickman and Bernard Harringan.
Born into a family with a long musical history on March 4, 1862 in Bunker Hill, Macoupin County, IL to Wolf Detlaf Charles Botefuhr and Eliza Jane James. His father had been born in Holstein, Germany and came to America as a child with his parents, Friedrich Andreas "Andrew" Botefuhr and Christiana Dorothea Schlunz. Frank's father's musical resume included being the first music teacher at the University of Arkansas between 1871-1881, member of the first Board of Trustees at the University of Mississippi and an orchestral composer. Frank graduated from the University of Arkansas with a music degree and opened his first music store in Fort Smith not long after graduation. He came to Pittsburg in 1884 and opened his first music store in Pittsburg on North Broadway, which later was moved to Sixth and Locust to a larger building. It moved again to a store on North Broadway between Sixth and Seventh streets with its final location being at 1318 South Broadway. He supplemented his income by working at the Van Winkle Lumber Yard for about a year. In 1886 he married Amelia Kalthoff in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the only child of Herman and Louisa Kalthoff and was born in Cincinnati in 1865. He and his wife returned to Pittsburg where he reopened his music store. In 1888 he became the conductor of the orchestra at the newly opened Opera House, which was located above the National Bank building at Fourth and Broadway. He remained in that position until the 1904 where he became the conductor of the orchestra at the new La Belle Theatre, opened by W. W. Bell in 1904 on the northeast corner of Fourth and Locust. His orchestras accompanied the theatre greats of the time including Eva Tanguay, Otis Skinner, Joseph Jefferson and Junius Brutus Booth, John Wilkes Booth's older brother, when they visited Pittsburg. After the La Belle Theatre burned on November 24, 1915. In the late teens and early 1920's, the Botefuhr Music Store became the largest music supply house outside of Kansas City, publishing original works by himself, his son Carl, Clarence Price and others under the imprint of Frank S. Botefuhr Publishing Co. He also began building pianos with names like the Frank S. Botefuhr Special and the Love Nest, a piano that would fit in the smaller homes. He also was very active in civic organizations, especially those that involved music. Mr. Botefuhr donated the instruments to the Pittsburg High School for the first high school band and lent instruments to the college for use in their band and orchestra. H once again became conductor of a theatre orchestra when the Colonial Theatre was opened on March 17, 1920. He played there for a few years until the need for an orchestra was eliminated due to ‘talkies' becoming popular. Frank and his wife, Amelia had one child, Carl Harry. Mr. Botefuhr retired from the music store in about 1925 and turned the operations over to his son. Amelia (Kalthoff) Botefuhr died February 29, 1932 in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Two sisters survive in addition to the son, Mrs. Alice Spaulding of New York City, and Mrs. Geraldine Cabell of Houston, TX. Mrs. Spaulding and son, Jack. Mrs. Cabell and daughter, Mrs. W. K. Donoghue of Vinita, OK. A nephew, Henry D. Schulte of Miami, FL.
Several hundred relatives and friends attended the funeral services held at the United Presbyterian church. Rev. J. H. Hutchman, pastor, in his sermon briefly sketched Mr. Botefuhr's life and stated that the deceased was one of the first to bring musical culture to Pittsburg, in those days a mining camp. The Pittsburg municipal band, directed by J. J. Richards, play "Nearer My God to Thee," as relatives and close friends entered the church. Other music at the church included a vocal solo, ‘Face to Face,' sung by Mrs. Charles R. DuBois; a duet ‘Lead Kindly Light,' sung by Mrs. Clyde Hartford and Mrs. DuBois. Robert Gibson played a violin solo ‘Ave Maria' (Bach Gounod) from the entrance of Mt. Olive cemetery to the grave the band preceded the funeral procession, playing a dirge. The body was lowered into the grave to the strains of ‘Abide With Me,' Pallbearers were E. C. Webber, Dr. Walter McCray, Joe Schlanger, James Halliday, Homer Hickman and Bernard Harringan.
Born into a family with a long musical history on March 4, 1862 in Bunker Hill, Macoupin County, IL to Wolf Detlaf Charles Botefuhr and Eliza Jane James. His father had been born in Holstein, Germany and came to America as a child with his parents, Friedrich Andreas "Andrew" Botefuhr and Christiana Dorothea Schlunz. Frank's father's musical resume included being the first music teacher at the University of Arkansas between 1871-1881, member of the first Board of Trustees at the University of Mississippi and an orchestral composer. Frank graduated from the University of Arkansas with a music degree and opened his first music store in Fort Smith not long after graduation. He came to Pittsburg in 1884 and opened his first music store in Pittsburg on North Broadway, which later was moved to Sixth and Locust to a larger building. It moved again to a store on North Broadway between Sixth and Seventh streets with its final location being at 1318 South Broadway. He supplemented his income by working at the Van Winkle Lumber Yard for about a year. In 1886 he married Amelia Kalthoff in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the only child of Herman and Louisa Kalthoff and was born in Cincinnati in 1865. He and his wife returned to Pittsburg where he reopened his music store. In 1888 he became the conductor of the orchestra at the newly opened Opera House, which was located above the National Bank building at Fourth and Broadway. He remained in that position until the 1904 where he became the conductor of the orchestra at the new La Belle Theatre, opened by W. W. Bell in 1904 on the northeast corner of Fourth and Locust. His orchestras accompanied the theatre greats of the time including Eva Tanguay, Otis Skinner, Joseph Jefferson and Junius Brutus Booth, John Wilkes Booth's older brother, when they visited Pittsburg. After the La Belle Theatre burned on November 24, 1915. In the late teens and early 1920's, the Botefuhr Music Store became the largest music supply house outside of Kansas City, publishing original works by himself, his son Carl, Clarence Price and others under the imprint of Frank S. Botefuhr Publishing Co. He also began building pianos with names like the Frank S. Botefuhr Special and the Love Nest, a piano that would fit in the smaller homes. He also was very active in civic organizations, especially those that involved music. Mr. Botefuhr donated the instruments to the Pittsburg High School for the first high school band and lent instruments to the college for use in their band and orchestra. H once again became conductor of a theatre orchestra when the Colonial Theatre was opened on March 17, 1920. He played there for a few years until the need for an orchestra was eliminated due to ‘talkies' becoming popular. Frank and his wife, Amelia had one child, Carl Harry. Mr. Botefuhr retired from the music store in about 1925 and turned the operations over to his son. Amelia (Kalthoff) Botefuhr died February 29, 1932 in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Two sisters survive in addition to the son, Mrs. Alice Spaulding of New York City, and Mrs. Geraldine Cabell of Houston, TX. Mrs. Spaulding and son, Jack. Mrs. Cabell and daughter, Mrs. W. K. Donoghue of Vinita, OK. A nephew, Henry D. Schulte of Miami, FL.
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