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They had five children: Ann Pfizer ( - 1876), Charles Junior (1860-1928), Gustavus Pfizer (1861 - 1944), Emile Pfizer (1866 - 1941) and Alice Bachofen Pfizer von Echt (1876 - 1959). Pfizer promptly exercised this option, paying his partner’s heirs $119,350 for Erhart’s half of the business. However in 1900, Pfizer distributed the stock of the company as follows: Charles Pfizer Junior.
(334 shares), Emile Pfizer (333 shares), William Erhart (333 shares).
He died at his summer home, Lindgate, in Newport, Rhode Island. His year-round home was in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
His death came a few weeks after a fall down stairs in which he broke an arm and was otherwise badly injured. Two daughters, Alice, Baroness Bachofen von Echt and Mistress
Frederick Duncan of Vienna, were with him when he died.
