The Topeka Daily State Journal Tuesday May 28, 1918 Aged Grocer Is Dead. M.J. Fitzgerald Had Been in Business Here for Twenty-Eight Years. M.J. FITZGERALD, prominent Topeka groceryman, died this morning at his home, 327 Tyler street. He was 60 years old, and had been a resident and property owner in Topeka for twenty-eight years. Fitzgerald was born in St. Louis, Mo., November 10, 1858, and moved to Topeka in 1882. He was a machinist by trade and during the first few years of his life in Topeka he worked at this. In 1890 he entered the grocery business with a man named Lannan, and for sixteen years the firm of Fitzgerald & Lannan on East Fourth street was rated among the city's foremost grocery concerns. About twelve years ago Fitzgerald withdrew from the Fitzgerald & Lannan company and opened another store at 300 Kansas avenue. Fitzgerald was operting this store at the time of his death. M.J. Fitzgerald married Miss Katherine SLAVIN, a Topeka girl, in 1891. He is survived by his widow, and by two children, Gertrude and Mary Fitzgerald, both of Topeka, and by two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Guilfoyl and Mrs. Nell Fitzgerald, both of St. Marys. Funeral announcements will be made later.