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Anthony Eickhoff. Anthony Eickhoff, aged seventy-four, ex-Fire Commissioner and ex-Coroner, who died at 118 West, Ninety-fourth Street, died Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Miehling, 854 West End Avenue. Mr. Eickhoff was born in Lippstadt, Westphalia, and came to America at the time of the German Revolution of 1846 [sic]. In 1848 he founded The St. Louis Zeitung, and later undertook the editorship of The Nordwestlichen Demokrat at Dubuque. He came to New York in 1812 to become editor of Der Abendpost. From 1854 to 1856 he edited Die Staats-Zeitung. During the civil war he served as a Commissary General for the New York troops. Ho was elected to the State Legislature in 1804. Ten years later he was elected Coroner, and in 1870 was sent to Congress. He was Fire Commissioner from 1891 to 1886. From 1808 until his death he had been an auditor in the present Fire Department. Mr. Eickhoff was the author of a work on German immigration entitled "The German in America." He is survived by his widow and daughter of 854 West End Avenue and a son living in San Francisco.