After a stay at a boarding school in Geneva and a trip to Italy, she married the gynaecologist Paul Osterloh (1849–1918), wrote novels and novellas.
[8] Osterloh translated Anna Maria van Schurman's dissertation "Darf eine christliche Frau studieren?"
The middle daughter Paula (1882–1968) married Carl Julius Stübel (1877–1974), a lawyer with a doctorate, in 1906 and was an artist under the name Stübel-Osterloh who took part in exhibitions of the Berlin Secession.
[15] After taking up her studies at the Veterinary College in Dresden in 1916, Ada Stübel switched to human medicine at the universities in Freiburg, Leipzig and Jena.
[16] Ada Stübel had obtained her research results by evaluating 48 varicose vein cases in the University Surgical Clinic under Director Professor Nicolai Guleke [de] (1878-1958).
[20] In the 1960s, her nephew, Christian Stübel (1906-1983), a doctor of law, the son of her sister Paula and grandson of Adele Osterloh, also lived in Mainz.
[21] A brother-in-law of the poet, a brother of her husband Paul, was Gustav Eduard Osterloh (1842–1903), Major General at disposition[22] since 1902 and previously lieutenant-colonel in the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment No.