 Schroeder died in 1899 in New York.The cause of his death was pneumonia which he had contracted at the funeral of his daughter Mary Jane (born 1866).His wife (Mary Jane Schroeder, née Rusher, 1830—1913) who he had married in 1854, his son Edwin and five more daughters (Leonora Mary, born 1857, Harriet Louise, born 1861, wife of Schroeder's business partner Frank N. Arguimbau, Alice, born 1872 and Frances, born 1874) survived him.