When Anna Otterson was born on 7 February 1874, in Hooksett, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Martin L. Otterson, was 42 and her mother, Mary E Whittemore, was 35. She died on 31 July 1908, in Hooksett, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 34.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Americanized form of Norwegian Ottersen: patronymic from the personal name Ottar, Old Norse Óttarr, from ótti ‘fear, dread’ + -arr ‘warrior’.
English (northern; Durham) and Scottish (Glasgow): from the Old Norse personal name Óttarr (see 1 and Otter 3) + patronymic -son.
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