On Apr 21, 3:02*pm, RookHouse wrote:
On Apr 21, 12:37*pm, wrote:

* Yes, his minus score (+8 -12 =7) must have told him the jig was up,
though in mitigation the guys above him in the standings were prettty
good: Lasker, Janowski, Maroczy, Pillsbury, Schlechter, Blackburne,
Chigorin, Showalter and Mason. He went downhill pretty fast after
that. A sad end to a difficult life full of triumphs and tragedies.- Hide quoted text -

A poster on my blog asked "I don’t remember reading what happened to
Mrs. Steinitz and the children. In those days widows who could not
support their children frequently lost them to state custody."

Do you have any info on this??

As far as I know, Steinitz had only one child, a daughter, Flora,
born to him and his first wife Caroline in 1866. The daughter
predeceased Steinitz, dying of endocarditis in 1888, which greatly
grieved her father. Wife Caroline (née Golder) was of English birth,
and nine years younger than Steinitz. I don't know anything else about
her.
I know even less about his second wife, just that she was born in
Switzerland. Landsberger's "The Steinitz Papers" has a few documents
that indicate she got some money from charitable friends of Steinitz
to help with his hospital costs. Perhaps some of this money was still
there when he died in August 1900.
If anyone reading this has Landsberger's biography of Steinitz,
perhaps he can supply more details?