Suggested edit: Otto was born in Witzleben, Kreis Wirsitz, Posen, Prussia (now part of Poland), and emigrated to Manistee, Michigan with his family at the age of 10. Two years later, his father died, leaving him to act as primary breadwinner in the Manistee lumber mills for his mother and 6 siblings at age 12. He left Michigan in 1912 to work as a millwright in a factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He and his wife Hertha Koenig Schallhorn lived their final years with their daughter in Dayton, Ohio.
Contributor: M Hahn (47328532)
Contributor: M Hahn (47328532)
Suggested edit: Otto was born in Witzleben, Kreis Wirsitz, Posen, Prussia (now part of Poland), and emigrated to Manistee, Michigan with his family at the age of 10. Two years later, his father died, leaving him to act as primary breadwinner in the Manistee lumber mills for his mother and 6 siblings at age 12. He left Michigan in 1912 to work as a millwright in a factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He and his wife Hertha Koenig Schallhorn lived their final years with their daughter in Dayton, Ohio.
Contributor: M Hahn (47328532)
Contributor: M Hahn (47328532)
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