October 16, 1931 Utica Daily Press
George A. Reusswig
Succumbs at Home In New Hartford
George A. Reusswig died at 5 am today at his home. Hillside Place, New Hartford, after an illness of 5 months with heart disease.
Mr. Reusswig was the son of Ernest and Mary Reusswig and was educated in the Utica schools. Mr. Reusswig was in the tailoring business with his father in Utica. After his fathers death he continued in the same business and later was employed by the U.T.K. Tailoring Company for 22 years, retiring a year ago.
Mr. Reusswig moved to New Hartford 24 years ago and developed the Reusswig Tract which is now Upper Hartford Terrace, Root Street and Hillside Place. While he has been ailing for the past several months, he has been able to be about and had been serving on the present grand jury. He attended the session of the jury Tuesday.
Mr. Reusswig was a member of Amicable Lodge, No 664, F. & A. M., New Hartford Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star; the Methodist Church and the Brotherhood of that Church.
He is survived by his widow who was Mary McNamara, and four children, Mrs. Walter McGinnis, Frankfort; Mrs. George Kerber, Rome; George of Brooklandville, Md., and Kenneth at home and by several grandchildren; two brothers, Ernest J. Reusswig, Jackson Heights, L.I.; Albert J., Utica; Mrs. George Heidenreich, Durbin, N. C.; Mrs. Herbert Johnson, Winston Salem, N. C.; and Mrs. Clarence Gurley, New Hartford.

Reusswig- In New Hartford, N.Y., Friday, October 16,1931. George A. Reusswig in his 63rd year.
Funeral services from his late residence, Hillside Place, Monday at 2 p.m. Friends are invited. Amicable Lodge, 664, F. & A. M. will conduct ritualistic services at the grave in
Green Lawn Cemetery at 2:45 P.M.


Oneida County, New York Biographies

Wager, Daniel. Our County and Its People, Part III: Family Sketches.
Boston: The Boston History Company, 1896.
REUSSWIG, GEORGE A., born in Utica, November 10, 1867, is a son of Ernest H.
Reusswig, who came to this city from Germany in 1859 and died here in February,
1895. Ernest H. was a merchant tailor in Utica for thirty years, being for
seventeen years a member of the firm of Belts & Reusswig, and eleven of Westcott
& Reusswig. He was a Scottish Rite Mason, one of the originators of the
Germania Industrial Association, and at the time of his death the oldest
merchant tailor in Utica. George A. Reusswig, after leaving the public schools,
learned the tailor's trade with his father, and for eight years followed it in
Buffalo. In September, 1894, he returned to Utica to take charge of his father's
business, and upon the latter's death became his successor. He is a member of
the Maennechor and the Germania Industrial Association. (p. 347)