Brief Life History of Otto
When Otto Obermiller was born on 12 August 1895, in Loup City, Sherman, Nebraska, United States, his father, Hans M Obermuller, was 31 and his mother, Mary Schellner, was 29. He married Alice Elizabeth Caddy on 31 December 1919, in Sherman, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Divide Township, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States in 1950. He died on 18 March 1978, in Loup City, Sherman, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Loup City, Sherman, Nebraska, United States.
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- Otto Obermiller, "United States 1950 Census"
- Otto Obermiller, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Otto Obermüller, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Obermüller, a topographic name for the miller at the ‘upper mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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