Chicago Abendpost, September 19, 1925 Page 7
One of the earliest settlers of Chicago, who in German circles was well known and well respected, brewery owner Michael Sieben was called to his death on Thursday at the age of 92 in his home at 1422 Mohawk Street. Healthy and strong to an advanced age, his strength began gradually to dwindle, until in due course general frailty overtook this restless and industrious man.
Michael Sieben was born in Haversheim (sic) near Mainz, traveling initially in his sixteenth year to the United States, settling first in Cincinnati, but traveled shortly afterward to Chicago, where, thanks to his diligence and his thrift, he brought his small savings, that put him in the profession, in the year 1865 on Pacific Ave., by starting a small brewery. In 1876 he founded on Larrabee Street what would later be known as Sieben's Brewery, and after about ten years would be named a corporation; and he held until his death the office of president. In 1887, Michael Sieben was one of the founders in bringing into being Brewmasters Association.
The deceased, whose wife preceding him in death by seven years, left behind six sons and a daughter, and besides these a large circle of friends and acquaintances stood at his bier. On Monday, the burial of the body at St. Boniface Cemetery follows the funeral at St. Michael Church.
[Translation from German by Guy Miller]
Michael Sieben was born in Ebersheim near Mainz, not "Haversheim"
His age at death was 90 years and 8 months, not 92.
His wife, Ida Fausch died 10 years earlier, not the seven stated.
When Michael opened the Pacific Avenue location, Pacific Avenue was known as Griswold. That street is now the section of La Salle Street south of Jackson.
Several other sources indicate that Michael did not travel to America until 1860, near the age 25. [Chicago's German Gentry, 1885; One Hundred Years Of Brewing, 1903]. It is documented that Michael was in Ebersheim in Jan of 1859 when he was the witness to the wedding of Catherine Eckert and Mathias Weber II.