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2 unusual facts about Otto K. Eitel


Otto K. Eitel

In 1949, he assumed the office of President of the Bismarck Hotel Co., which he held until the sale of the hotel in 1956 to the hotel and sports entrepreneur Arthur Wirtz.

His father emigrated at age 20 from Stuttgart in Germany to Chicago, founded there with his brother Emil Eitel the Bismarck Hotel Co., to which belonged the Bismarck Hotel and the large beer garden Marigold Gardens.


Diocesan Native Female Training School

In addition, according to Dr. E. J. Eitel’s letter to the Colonial Secretary Frederick Stewart, DNFTS was forced to close temporarily in 1865 upon learning that almost every one of the girls learned English there, and became the kept mistress of foreigners on leaving school.

Eitel Brothers

In 1956, Otto K. Eitel sold the hotel to the hotel and sports entrepreneur Arthur Wirtz.


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