History of the bicycle fashion of the day made the "ordinary" bicycle inaccessible. Queen Victoria owned Starley's "Royal Salvo" tricycle, though there is no evidence she actually rode it. Although French and English inventors modified the velocipede into the high-wheel bicycle, the French were still recovering from the Franco-Prussian war, so English entrepreneurs put the high-wheeler on the English market, and the machine became very popular there, Coventry, Oxford, Birmingham and Manchester being the centers of the English bicycle industry (and of the arms or sewing machine industries, which had the necessary metalworking and engineering skills for bicycle manufacturing, as in Paris and St.
Eugene A. Sittig Jenny and William A., the latter of which frequently worked under his father. His wife died in 1898 and Sittig married Anna Weidner. Sittig was a Freemason and was a member of the Germania Club and Chicago Press Club. Sittig died on June 6, 1907 from complications of pneumonia. He was buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. Eugene A. Sittig Eugene Alexander Sittig (October 1, 1847 – June 6, 1907) was a German American publisher and politician from Prussia. Immigrating with his family as an infant, Sittig apprenticed as a blacksmith in Chicago, Illinois. He later joined the advertising department