When Joseph George Otto was born on 5 May 1883, in Hamilton, Ohio, United States, his father, Charles Henry Otto, was 29 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Burwinkel, was 20. He married Elizabeth P Meyer on 15 May 1907, in Hamilton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Colerain Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States for about 40 years. He died on 9 August 1948, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Saint Bernard Catholic Cemetery, Colerain Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
On 8 May 1896, Cincinnati annexed the village of Westwood.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
German, Danish, Swedish, and Dutch; Hungarian (Ottó): from the personal name Otto, a short form of ancient Germanic compound names based on the element aud, ōd ‘wealth, prosperity’ (see also Ott ). The name Otto was a hereditary name in the Saxon ruling house, as well as being borne by Otto von Wittelsbach, who founded the Bavarian ruling dynasty in the 11th century, and the 12th-century Saint Otto of Bamberg, apostle of Pomerania.
History: This name was introduced to America by Bodo Otto, a senior surgeon of the Continental Army, who was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1711, came to North America in 1755, and practiced in NJ and PA. He died in Reading, PA, in 1787.
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