Otto W. Denison

Brief Life History of Otto W.

When Otto W. Denison was born in July 1881, in Albany, New York, United States, his father, Wheeler Denison, was 36 and his mother, Rachel Jane Winne, was 29. He married Josie May Overton about 1908, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States. He lived in Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1905 and Soldier Township, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1910. He died on 13 May 1918, in Kansas, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Rochester Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States.

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Otto W. Denison
1881–1918
Josie May Overton
1878–1941
Marriage: about 1908

Sources (5)

  • Otto W Dennison, "Kansas State Census, 1905"
  • Otto Denison, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Otto W Dennison in household of W F Dennison, "Kansas State Census, 1895"

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World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English (Yorkshire): variant of Dennison .

Americanized form of a Slavic patronymic from the personal name Denis or Denys , such as Russian Denisov or Ukrainian Denysenko or Denysevych.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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